Literature and Cinema: Algerian War of Independence

This course will consider a few of the many works of literature, cinema, philosophy, and historiography that have responded to the Algerian War of Independence of 1954-62. Areas of study will include: the Algerian war and the emergence of Algerian literature; the War and the ‘École d’Alger’; the public debate over torture and human rights; the Algerian war as a precursor of 1968; Memory/commemoration of the war in Algeria and in France; gender in/and the Algerian war; the Algerian War in French/Algerian/colonial historiography, and violence and memory in the first, second, and third Algerian wars (1830-1954-1991).