REVISED SCHEDULE

NB: All readings must be completed by the day on which they were assigned.

WEEK 1

Tu, 1/14 Introduction

IN-CLASS: ≥Centenaire de la LibÈration de lπAlgerie≤ poster (1930; slide)

IN-CLASS: Excerpts from EugËne Delacroixπs Journal

HANDOUT: Skim: Historical Maps, Timelines, Glossaries.

Th, 1/16 Introduction to the Maghreb and the History of the Colonial Encounter

≥North Africa in the nineteenth century≤ and ≥Conquest and resistance in the Maghrib≤

L. Carl Brown, ≥France and the Arabs: An Overview,≤ in L. Carl Brown and Matthew S. Gordon, eds. Franco-Arab Encounters (1996).

IN CLASS: Clip from ≥Introduction to the Arab World≤ (video)

WEEK 2

Sun, 1/19 Evening Film: ≥The Battle of Algiers≤ Kauke 101, 7:30 pm

Alistair Horne, ≥The Battle of Algiers,≤ in A Savage War of Peace, 183-197, 206-7.

MLK, Jr. Day, Mon 1/20

Tu, 1/21 The Battle of Algiers and the Algerian War of Independence, 1954-62

DISCUSS: ≥The Battle of Algiers≤

Th, 1/23 The Maghgreb c. 1990 and 1830

C.R. Pennell, Morocco since 1830, ≥1830≤ and ≥Defeat,≤ pp. 1-39.

Jamil M. Abun-Nasr, A History of the Maghrib in the Islamic Period, ≥The Emergence of French Algeria,≤ pp. 248-263. [on 1830-1848]

IN-CLASS: ≥Introduction to the Arab World≤ (Amideast, 1989) and ≥The Cities of Islam: Fez≤ (International Film Bureau, 1986).

WEEK 3

Tu, 1/28 The Maghgreb in the Mid Nineteenth-Century and Reading Primary Sources

Pennell, Morocco since 1830, ≥Defeat,≤ pp. 40-67.

Ibn Khaldun, ≥On the Imitation of the Conquerors by the Conquered≤

Mary Lynn Rampolla, A Pocket Guide to Writing About History, ≥Introduction,≤ pp. 1-12.

Th, 1/30 Maghrebi Responses to 1830

*Alf Heggoy, ed., The French Conquest of Algiers, selections.

Rampolla, Pocket Guide to History, pp. 13-20. [reading critically, evaluating sources]

CLOSE READING OF ONE HEGGOY DOCUMENT DUE IN CLASS

WEEK 4

Tu, 2/4 French Travelers to North Africa in the Romantic Age, and the Politics of Representation

Delacroix, selections from his Journal (from the first day)

Tahar Ben-Jellaoun, ≥Prologue≤ to Delacroix in Morocco

*Alexander Dumas, selections from Adventures in Algeria

›Linda Nochlin, ≥The Imaginary Orient,≤ in The Politics of Vision

IN CLASS: EugËne Delacroixπ Orientalist paintings (slides)

Th, 2/6 A Moroccan Scholar Looks at Europe

*Mohammad as-Saffar, Disorienting Encounters, selections

WEEK 5

Tu, 2/11 Overview of Nineteenth c. Colonialism

RECOMMENDED: Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, ≥Prelude, 1830-1954,≤ pp. 21-59.

SHORT ANALYTIC PAPER DUE 10 pm

Th, 2/13 The Culture of Colonialism - Travelers and Settlers in Colonial North Africa

Alec Hargreaves, ≥Introduction: The Colonial Venture,≤ in The Colonial Experience

›David Prochaska, ≥The Creation of a Colonial Culture,≤ in Making Algeria French

WEEK 6

Tu, 2/18 The Culture of Colonialism Continued

*Malek Alloulla, selections from The Colonial Harem

›Julia Clancy-Smith, ≥The Colonial Gaze: Sex and Gender in the Discourses of French North Africa,≤ in L. Carl Brown and Matthew S. Gordon, eds. Franco-Arab Encounters (1996).

Th, 2/20 Lyautey and the Mission in Morocco

›William A. Hoisington, Jr., ≥Colonial Mission,≤ in Lyautey and the French Conquest of Morocco (1995).

WEEK 7

Tu, 2/25     Two Visions of the Meeting of East and West

*Isabelle Eberhardt, selections from In the Shadow of Islam and The Oblivion Seekers

*Albert Camus, ≥The Guest,≤ from Exile and the Kingdom (1957).

Th, 2/27     More on Camus.  Start Albert Memmi

›Edward Said, ≥Camus and the French Imperial Experience,≤ Culture and Imperialism (1993).

Albert Memmi, The Pillar of Salt (orig. 1955), pp. Vii-x, 1-59.

WEEK 8

Tu, 3/4     The Autobiography of a Tunisian Jew

*Memmi, The Pillar of Salt, 60-90, skim part II, reading one chapter closely, 239-282.

Th, 3/6     France, Tunisia, and Albert Memmi

*Memmi, The Pillar of Salt, 283-342.

Spring Break 3/8-3/23

WEEK 9

Tu, 3/25 Rockinπ the Casbah (again)

*Paul Aussaresses, The Battle of the Casbah, first half.

Th, 3/27 Torture and the Algerian War

*Paul Aussaresses, The Battle of the Casbah, finish

WEEK 10

Tu, 4/1 Another View of Torture

*Jean-Paul Sartre, introduction to Alleg, The Question (1958)

*Henri Alleg, The Question, selections.

RESEARCH PROPOSAL WITH SHORT BIBLIOGRAPHY DUE (2 pp. plus bibliography, 10 pm)

Th, 4/3 Back to the Algerian War

*Franz Fanon, excerpt from A Dying Colonialism

WEEK 11

Tu, 4/8 The European Exodus from Algeria

Jane Kramer, ≥The Pieds Noir≤

PRESENTATIONS (2)

PRESENTATION AND INTERPRETATION OF A PRIMARY SOURCE DUE (4-5 pp., 10 pm)

Th, 4/10 France, Arabs, and Politics

Mort Rosenblum, ≥North Africa: Beurs and Beaufs,≤ in A Mission to Civilize (1986).

PRESENTATIONS (2)

WEEK 12

Tu, 4/15 Immigrants in France

*›Tahar Ben Jelloun, French Hospitality, first half.

PRESENTATIONS (2)

EXAMINATION OF SECONDARY LITERATURE DUE (4-5 pp., 10 pm)

Th, 4/17 Immigrants in France

*›Ben Jelloun, French Hospitality, finish

PRESENTATIONS (2)

WEEK 13

Tu, 4/22 ≥Beur France≤

Philip Sweeney, ≥Rai Rebels≤

Maurizio Bianchini, ≥Rai ånπ Roll,≤ LπEuropeo, Jan. 3-11, 1995. World Press Review, April 1995

IN-CLASS: Rai Music of Cheb Khaled and Cheb Mami

PRESENTATIONS (4)

OUTLINE OF YOUR ESSAY, WITH A CONCISE STATEMENT OF YOUR HISTORICAL ARGUMENT and DRAFT OF INTRODUCTION DUE (2-3 pp. outline; 2-3 pp. introduction, 10 pm)

Th, 4/24 Another View of the French Conquest

Assia Djebar, Fantasia, An Algerian Cavalcade, Part I, pp. 1-46.

PRESENTATIONS (2)

WEEK 14

Tu, 4/29 Historical Memory, Fiction, and the Power of Language

Djebar, Fantasia, part II and III, pp. 47-227.

PRESENTATIONS (2)

PEER SUGGESTION PAPER DUE (2-3 pages, in class)

Th, 5/1 Last Class

PRESENTATIONS (3)

READING PERIOD AND FINALS

5/3-5 READING DAYS

5/5 FINAL PAPER WITH BIBLIOGRAPHY DUE (by 5 pm)