FREN 3345 is also offered in Fall 2024
FREN 3345 is also offered in Fall 2022
Spring 2019 | FREN 3345 Section 001: The Holocaust in France: Literature, History, Testimony (68638)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Discussion
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Meets With:
JWST 3745 Section 001
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
Tue,
Thu 09:45AM - 11:00AM
UMTC, East Bank
Science Teaching Student Svcs 123
- Enrollment Status:
Closed (18 of 18 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- This course examines the event of the Holocaust (which we call "Shoah" in France since the 80s and especially since the film of the same name by Claude Lanzmann) in literature, film and archives. France has a complex relationship with Jews since the Middle Ages. During the French Revolution (1789), then under the Empire (Napoleon Bonaparte, 1800-1815), the Jews benefitted from political emancipation. The Republic defended the equality of Jews before the law as French citizens. But France was also the country of political anti-Semitism and of the Dreyfus Affair (there were in the nineteenth century some very virulent anti-Semitic propaganda writers, for example Edouard Drumont, author of Jewish France, in 1880, just before the Dreyfus Affair). This history of the Jews in France culminates with the Vichy regime, the policy of collaboration with Nazi Germany, antisemitic writings and propaganda emanating from important writers such as Louis-Ferdinand Celine and politicians, and the deportation of part of the Jewish population to the extermination camps. How does this story affect fictional writing, and debates on how to represent this event? More than a course on the Holocaust, we explore the story of its reminiscence in French culture. It is not a history class, but a class in culture, literature, memory and testimony. FREN 3345 and 3745 meet together. Class sessions are taught in English. Reading and writing assignments for FREN 3345 are in modern French. FREN 3345 may count towards the major or minor in French Studies. Reading and writing assignments for FREN 3745 are in English. FREN 3745 may not count towards the major or minor in French Studies. prereq: FREN 3015; it is recommended that students have taken, or take concurrently, FREN 3101W.
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/68638/1193
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