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Course description

This course aims to equip students with an overview of some of the major historical, cultural, social, literary and philosophical movements of modern France and to help them understand how these have troubled a stable sense of French identity in modern day France and France's former colonies. It also aims, therefore, to help students gain a sense of the constructed nature of any national identity, of the way in which identity is a constantly changing and inherently unstable concept. In using examples from many different kind of cultural texts, students will also begin to understand how these questions of national identity are mediated though cultural production and will thus learn to adopt critical strategies to analyse texts in a directed manner. Note: Course offering may be cancelled unless a minimum of 20 students enrol.

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