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Handbook 1997 : Faculty of Arts : French

116-223/323 France and the Pacific

Credit Points:

16.7 2nd and 3rd year

Coordinator:

Assoc. Professor Monique Burston

Prerequisite/s:

116-115 or 116-202, or equivalent.

Timetable:

Semester 1

Contact:

Two one-hour lectures and a one-hour tutorial a week

Content:

In this subject, the following issues or themes will be examined: voyages of discovery (Bougainville's Voyage autour du monde); the Pacific in relation to 18th Century philosophical thought (Diderot's Supplément au Voyage de Bougainville); the Tahitian mirage (Loti's Mariage de Loti, Gauguin, etc.); missions and the decline of traditional Tahitian culture (Segalen's ethnographic novel Les Immémoriaux); New Caledonia, the history of its colonisation, its present political and economic situation, with special attention given to the Accords de Matignon and the forthcoming referendum on independence.

Assessment:

one 2-hour test (40 %); one essay (not more than 1500 words) (35 %); oral presentation and class participation equivalent to not more than 1500 words (25 %).

Prescribed Texts:

  • Henningham S, France and the South Pacific: A Contemporary History, Allen and Unwin 1992.
  • Loti P, Le Mariage de Loti, Flammarion.
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