The Charles Bonnier Annual Lecture in French Studies
5:30pm - 6:30pm /
Wednesday 25th May 2016
/ Venue: Wallbank Lecture Theatre Room, 12 Abercromby Square
Abercromby SQ (south)
Type: Lecture /
Category: Department
- Dr Tom Whittaker
- Suitable for: Anyone who is interested in this topic, including members of the public, staff and students.
- Admission: Admission is free.
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'Teaching in a time of crisis'
Postcolonial critics, starting with Edward Said, have tended to be drawn to heroic models of the public intellectual and of political intervention. This raises questions about their own work as teachers, especially teachers of literature, work that may appear contaminated by its historical association with colonialism, nationalism and other outdated ideologies. Against this backdrop, this paper will discuss the case of Mouloud Feraoun, an acclaimed francophone writer who taught in French schools in colonial Algeria. (The paper will assume no prior knowledge of his work.) Feraoun remained in Algeria and continued to work as a teacher and educationalist throughout the war of independence, a stance that placed his life at risk from both Algerian nationalists and the French/colon Right. If his commitment to education was, in its way, heroic, it was a paradoxical heroism, at once political and apolitical.
Postcolonial critics, starting with Edward Said, have tended to be drawn to heroic models of the public intellectual and of political intervention. This raises questions about their own work as teachers, especially teachers of literature, work that may appear contaminated by its historical association with colonialism, nationalism and other outdated ideologies. Against this backdrop, this paper will discuss the case of Mouloud Feraoun, an acclaimed francophone writer who taught in French schools in colonial Algeria. (The paper will assume no prior knowledge of his work.) Feraoun remained in Algeria and continued to work as a teacher and educationalist throughout the war of independence, a stance that placed his life at risk from both Algerian nationalists and the French/colon Right. If his commitment to education was, in its way, heroic, it was a paradoxical heroism, at once political and apolitical.