Something to Declare: Essays on France and French Culture

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    • The Hugh M. Davidson Essay Prize commemorates a beloved teacher and colleague who was also internationally admired for his scholarly publications, particularly on Blaise Pascal. For the purposes of this competition, subjects will be considered acceptable if they concern writings in French prior to The essays submitted to this competition will not have been previously submitted as graded work for a course, but instead may deepen and develop ideas from work in a course at the University.

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    His life shows that right-wing politics needn’t bend toward absolutism.

    The submission deadline for essays is October 1. Essays should be double-spaced in Times New Roman font, with margins of 1 October 1. Undergraduates in all schools of the University are invited to submit word essays in French on a topic concerning Franco-American relations, broadly interpreted to be any topic of a comparative nature dealing with the language, culture, politics, society, business or some similar or allied subject of the United States and of France or any French-speaking nation or region.

    The deadline the next competition academic year is October 1, Essays must be received by Ms. Kathy Halvorsen kah6f virginia. For complete details, see the guidelines that follow. The contest is open to all undergraduate students of French at the University who are not native speakers of French and who have not learned their French primarily in French-speaking schools.

    Questions concerning eligibility can be discussed with Professor Krueger Director of the Undergraduate Program in French. The length of the essay should be between and words, about six to eight pages double-spaced. Each essay should have a title, and pages should be numbered. Essays are to be entirely the work of the participant; research materials must be referenced. The committee takes a dim view of research conducted exclusively on the internet. Essays are judged on choice of topic, clarity of argument, and quality of French.

    The essay must not have been previously submitted for another essay contest; it may have been written initially in the context of a University course provided that it has been developed or reworked. Former winners of a Maas prize are excluded from the present competition. Each contestant may submit a single essay. Essays should be submitted as e-mail attachments in Word or.

    The name of the writer should not figure within the essay itself but should be given in the e-mail message. The e-mail message will contain a pledge that the work is that of the author alone.

    The judges will not know the identities of the writers. Authors of essays will be encouraged to attend a special event hosted by the French Department in April. Prize winners will be announced at this event. These awardees will be entitled to prize money to be used for similar expenses. Recipients will have two years from receipt of reward to spend these funds. Before the end of two years, all recipients must submit a narrative explaining use of funds and receipts. Unspent funds or failure to provide receipts and a narrative by the end of two years may lead to a requirement that the recipient refund the department the full amount of the award or partial if a portion of the funds is left unspent.

    The decision of the judges is final. The Maas Prize Committee reserves the right to withhold the announced prize if, in its opinion, essays submitted are not of sufficient merit. The prize was established in by the late Mrs. Kitty M. Click here to see a list of former prize winners and their topics. Undergraduates are invited to submit essays written in French in an intermediate-level course at the University of Virginia FREN , , within the previous year, whether on Grounds or in the UVA program in Lyon, on a topic concerning Franco-American relations, broadly interpreted to be any topic of a comparative nature dealing with the language, culture, arts, politics, society, business or some similar or allied subject of the United States and of France or any French-speaking nation or region.

    Students may submit any essay written for class for which they did not receive extensive feedback and error correction advice from the instructor. Essays written for class may be revised and expanded if desired to strengthen them. The deadline for the Maas Prize competition is October 15, Endowed by Professor Emeritus T. Nominations from the French faculty are gathered in January by the chair of the Undergraduate Studies Committee, and the recipient is selected the following month by the department chair. The award is presented at a Rotunda dinner on or about Founder's Day.

    Click here for previous winners. French majors and minors who do not plan on pursuing graduate or professional studies will significantly enhance their employment prospects in business, government, or non-profit organizations by complementing their arts and sciences program with the appropriate internships available through University Career Services, as well as advanced studies a major or minor in another discipline.

    For more information contact the Director of Undergraduate Program. Skip to main content. Undergraduate Nationally recognized for its excellence in teaching and research, the University of Virginia French Department offers a variety of courses and programs that enable its students to explore as well as develop in-depth knowledge and advanced competencies in the field of French.

    Undergraduates may take a level course with the instructor's permission. A grade of C or better must be earned in each and every course counted toward the minor. Note: Up to twelve hours toward the major may be earned in approved foreign-study programs see Study Abroad. Undergraduates may take level courses after having earned a "B" or better in two level courses and obtaining the instructors' permission.

    Special rules govern the taking of independent study courses FREN and See the "Policy on Undergraduate Tutorials" section below. It is not all giraffes. What is a Japanese writer? Is it someone who lives and writes in Japan? Or someone born in Japan who writes in spite of it? But as the novel points out, the relationship between a writer and his nationality can be utterly arbitrary.

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    In the post-colonial French context, where a writer is born may or may not form the basis of his classification. We say it is American literature.

    The day has to come when France recognises this kind of writing not as African literature but as French literature. French republican values, grounded in secularism and universalism, call for the immigrant, or the child of immigrants, to be assimilated into French culture. Difference sticks out, and undoes the whole picture. A black writer in America may or may not think of himself as African-American, but the category is there.

    In France, the idea of a hyphenated identity is unfamiliar, which is why the francophone category is at once so useful and so useless. It covers for all manner of non-French identities, but creates an alternative to Frenchness that is not coextensive with being French. One is either French or francophone, but not both. To some French journalists, the festival smacks of self-aggrandisement and political correctness. People think the colonised are the victims, but the colonisers are as well, somehow. We all suffer from it, from having been colonised, and from having colonised.

    Le Bris and Rouaud picked up on this in Je est un autre. Town hall meetings were held across the country to discuss what it meant to be French and a website was established where people could leave their comments. The site soon devolved into a racist free-for-all: a fifth of the entries had to be deleted. Sarkozy cast the debate in terms that made him appear sympathetic to the plight of the immigrant in France. The response to the initiative was derisory; Sarkozy was accused of taking advantage of the tense racial situation in France to win the municipal elections held in March last year.

    The topic of national or ethnic identity is so taboo that only extreme right-wing politicians like Jean-Marie Le Pen would touch it in the past. It leaves out the very important issue of perspective: the view a writer has on the world, and how it is conditioned by because where would any conversation be without Bourdieu?

    But is it terribly Anglo-American of me to insist on a model of visible diversity?

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    So then why are Le Bris, Rouaud, and the other signatories so anxious to throw out francophonie? I sat down with Le Bris on the last day of the festival to talk through some of these issues with him. Sartre intervened on his behalf, without success. Since his activist days, Le Bris has invested his political energy in more legal directions; he has published his own travel narratives and philosophical tracts, and founded a travel literature imprint called Voyageurs-Payot, where he has published writers like Jonathan Raban, Colin Thubron, and Peter Matthiessen all of whom are regular guests at the festival.

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    Something to Declare: Essays on France and French Culture [Julian Barnes] on giuliettasprint.konfer.eu *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Anyone who loves France. I think the something that needs to be declared is that the title is a gross misnomer. It would be far more accurate to call it Essays on Flaubert and French Culture.

    France thinks of francophonie as something separate from itself. The French think they diffuse the light of their culture onto the former colonies. Alain Mabanckou made this argument in Le Monde a year before the manifesto was published:. When we talk about francophone literature, we think quite naturally of a literature made outside of France, most often by writers from the former French colonies. This definition, in its generality, has the merit of cutting short further discussion in order to assuage [French] consciences.

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    And we could apply it to the literatures of all former colonies. At one time, Mabanckou told me at the festival, he thought francophone literature would be integrated into French literature. But over time he began to reassess the relationship between them. But it is a step towards erasing the hierarchy which exists between them.