The Pedagogical Imagination: The Republican Legacy in Twenty-First-Century French Literature and Film

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Contents List of Illustrations vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Reading the Republican Legacy 1 1. A New Language of Learning: Object Lesson Pedagogy and the Modern Reader 24 2. Visualizing Literacy: From Pierre Larousse to Agnès Varda’s Les glaneurs et la glaneuse 53 3. Teaching Suspicion: Erik Orsenna’s La grammaire est une chanson douce as a Modern Tour de la France par deux enfants 81 4. A Classic Dodge: Republican Conflict and Islamic Solutions in Abdellatif Kechiche’s L’esquive 112 5. Writing on Walls: Laïcité and Literary Form in François Bégaudeau’s Entre les murs 145 Conclusion: The Strangeness of Republican Culture 176 Notes 191 Bibliography 209 Index 219 ...