FREN 3730

Religious Violence in French and Francophone Literature

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2024-2025 Catalog. Courses of Study 2024-2025 is scheduled to publish mid-June.

What makes religious violence so intractable, and what has fostered the continuity of this form of conflict over such a long span of time? What is the role of aesthetics in literary descriptions of such horrific violence? Violence as a spectacle raises the question of personal responsibility, making those who observe it complicit even if they do not participate in it. Texts to be considered will include Maalouf's Les Croisades vues par les arabes. Théodore Agrippa d'Aubigné's Les Tragiques, René Girard's La Violence et le sacré, Charlotte Delbo's Auschwitz et après, Shoshana Felman's and Dori Laub's work Testimony, Gillo Pontecorvo's La Bataille d'Algers, Franz Fanon's Les Damnés de la Terre, Assia Djebar's L'Amour, la fantasia.

Prerequisites/Corequisites Prerequisite: FREN 2310 and FREN 2180, or CASE++ placement.

Last 4 Terms Offered 2025SP, 2020FA, 2014FA, 2012FA

Language Requirement Satisfies Option 1.

Distribution Category (ALC-AS, ETM-AS) (FL-AG)

When Offered Spring.

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