ClassInfo - Fall 2022 French Classes

Fall 2022 | FREN 3345 Section 001: The Holocaust in France: Literature, History, Testimony (32868)

Instructor(s): Bruno Chaouat
Class Component:: Discussion
Credits:: 3 Credits
Grading Basis:: Student Option
Instructor Consent:: No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:: In Person
Times and Locations:: Regular Academic Session

09/06/2022 - 12/14/2022

Mon, Wed 02:30PM - 03:45PM

UMTC, East Bank

Folwell Hall 5
Enrollment Status:: Open (20 of 22 seats filled)
Also Offered:: (Tentative) Fall 2024
Fall 2022

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. prereq: FREN 3015; it is recommended that students have taken, or take concurrently, FREN 3101W.

Class Notes:

http://classinfo.umn.edu/?chaou001+FREN3345+Fall2022

Class Description:

French 334

This course examines the event of the Holocaust in literature,

film and archives. France has had a complex relationship with Jews

since the Middle Ages. During the French Revolution (1789), then

under the Empire (Napoleon Bonaparte, 1800-1815), the Jews

benefited from political emancipation. However, in the 19th century

the counter-revolution gave rise to virulent expressions of

antisemitism. French antisemitism culminates with the Vichy

regime, the policy of collaboration with Nazi Germany, antisemitic

writings and propaganda 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.

Textbooks:

https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/32868/1229

Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:

13 April 2022

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