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Course description and objectives
After France won the FIFA World Cup in 1998, the slogan “Black, Blanc, Beur” emerged as a sign of the country’s alleged “harmonious multiculturalism”. About 20 years later, and despite France winning the World Cup again in 2018, things have considerably soured with intense debates going on in France about French secularism, amalgamation between Islam and terrorism, anti-Semitic acts, etc. The riots in French banlieues in 2005 and the emergence of the “Indigènes de la République” have come to symbolise, among others, the failure of a certain idea of French multiculturalism and were interpreted as a sign of French “colonial aphasia” (Ann Stoler). What does France look like in 2019? Such questions and themes will be tackled through the analysis of contemporary French cultural productions.
Course structure
Compétence à acquérir :
Learning outcomes
Students will get an opportunity to have a deeper understanding of multiculturalism in the French context and to compare it with other multicultural contexts.
By attending this course, students will widen their cultural horizon and knowledge of France. By analysing French cultural productions (literary extracts, visual arts, music), they will also sharpen their critical eye while the various exercises done in class – oral presentations, essay writing with peer-review workshop, debates – will help them improve their public speaking skills and formal writing skills.
Mode de contrôle des connaissances :
Assignments and grading
Bibliographie, lectures recommandées :
Bibliography
Literature :
Cf. Alain Mabanckou, Leonora Miano, Assia Djebbar, Leila Sebbar, etc.
- Maryse Condé, Crossing the Mangrove (Traversée de la mangrove), 1989.
- Faiza Guène, Just Like Tomorrow (Kiffe Kiffe demain), 2004.
Extracts may be studied in class.
Non fiction:
-Aïssa Maïga, Sonia Rolland (and 14 other Black actresses), Noire n’est pas mon métier, Paris: Seuil, 2018.
- Music :
IAM, L’école du micro d’argent, 1997.
Casey, Tragédie d’une trajectoire, 2006.
La Rumeur, etc.
History/Theory:
- Nicolas Bancel, Pascal Blanchard, Françoise Vergès, La Colonisation française, Milan "Les Essentiels", 2007.
- Patrick Boucheron (dir.), Histoire mondiale de la France, Paris : Seuil, 2017.
- Hafid Gafaiti, “Nationalism, colonialism, and ethnic discourse in the construction of French Identity”, in Tylor Stovall and Georges van den Abbeele (eds), French Civilization and its Discontents. Nationalism, colonialism, race. Lanham etc., Lexington books, 2003, pp. 189-212.
- Moller S. Okin (editors: J. Cohen, M. Howard and M.C. Nussbaum). 1999a. “Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women?” Princeton: Princeton University Press, pp 7-27.
- Mireille Rosello, “Tactical universalism and new multiculturalist claims in postcolonial France”, in Charles Forsdick and David Murphy (eds), Francophone Postcolonial Studies. A Critical Introduction, London, Arnold, 2003. pp. 135-144.
- Kathryn Kleppinger and Laura Reeck (eds.), Post-Migratory Cultures in Postcolonial France, Liverpool: Liverpool UP, 2018.
Movies :
- Mathieu Kassovitz, La Haine, 1995
- Jean-François Richet, Ma 6-T va crack-er, 1996
- Laurent Cantet, The Class (Entre les murs), 2008
- Céline Sciamma, Girlhood (Bande de filles), 2014
- Houda Benyamina, Divines, 2016
Documentaries :
- Karim Miské, Mohamed Joseph, Pascal Blanchard, Musulmans de France, 2009.
- Hélène Milano, Les roses noires, 2011 (on being a teenage girl in a French “banlieue”).
- Juan Géla, Pascal Blanchard, Noirs de France, 2012.
- Fatima Sissani, Les Gracieuses, 2014.
- Olivier Babinet, Swagger, 2016.
- Amandine Gay, Ouvrir la voix, 2017.
- Daniel Cattier, Juan Gela, Fanny Glissant, Les Routes de l’esclavage, 2018.
The DVDs of the movies and documentaries which will be studied in class will be circulated from the beginning of the semester.
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