Leon Sachs is an associate professor of French and francophone studies at the University of Kentucky.
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Reading the Republican Legacy
1. A New Language of Learning: Object Lesson Pedagogy and the Modern Reader
2. Visualizing Literacy: From Pierre Larousse to Agnès Varda’s Les glaneurs et la glaneuse
3. Teaching Suspicion: Erik Orsenna’s La grammaire est une chanson douceas a Modern Tour de la France par deux enfants
4. A Classic Dodge: Republican Conflict and Islamic Solutions in Abdellatif Kechiche’s L’esquive
5. Writing on Walls: Laïcité and Literary Form in François Bégaudeau’s Entre les murs
Conclusion: The Strangeness of Republican Culture
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Leon Sachs is an associate professor of French and francophone studies at the University of Kentucky.