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116-455 War and Identity: the French and the Second World War

Year 4 French.

Credit points: 16.7 4th year

Coordinator: Professor Colin Nettelbeck.

Prerequisite: A major in French (Post-VCE stream) or equivalent.

Contact: Two hours of lecture/seminar per week.

Timetable: Second semester

Objectives:

Students who complete this subject should be able to:

• demonstrate knowledge of the major facets of the French experience of WWII;
• demonstrate an understanding of the problems involved in the integration of this experience into the national identity;
• evaluate various types of written and visual documents in relation to the problem of the national memory of WWII.

Content:

A study, via a selection of written and visual texts, of how French cultural production has been obsessed with the problem of remembering - and trying to forget - the experience of the Second World War.

Assessment:

One class paper (written up in French: 1,500 words); one document analysis (1,000 words); one essay (3,000 words - accompanied by a 500 word ré sumé in French).

Prescribed texts:

• Colin Nettelbeck War and Identity Routledge
• Patrick Modiano Boulevards de Ceinture Folio
• Marguerite Duras La Douleur Minuit
• Other written material provided by the Department, together with various fictional and documentary films

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