Algerian Revolutions

3 Credits · Level: Graduate, Undergraduate

This course will analyze the historical, political and cultural situations that led to the Algerian War as well as the roles of the various groups that emerged from the colonial system and the war itself. The Algerian war remains a traumatic event for the French and Algerian populations, as well as a defining moment for these States. Following the war, partial amnesia was hastily constructed through a series of laws of amnesty in France, and through a series of officially-sponsored commemorations in Algeria. This course proposes to explore the resistance and the efforts displayed to come to terms, or not, with this trauma, and the role played by fictions and films to understand this ever present past and put it behind, in both France and Algeria. Cross-listed with MAAS. This course fulfills the upper-division culture requirement for the French major.