Témoigner

This course aims, through lectures and text analysis, to study the poetics and aesthetics of testimony, from Jean Norton Cru (Témoins [witnesses], 1929) to the present, more specifically war testimony, workers\' testimony, journalistic testimony and autoethnographic testimony. This course aims to give students in-depth knowledge of the art of testimony (narrative techniques, the work of memory, striving for coherence, effects of reality) and a better understanding of the polarity of opinions expressed in often contradictory testimonies regarding similar experiences. Students will grasp the issues that the various testimonies reveal and, through analyzing the tensions inherent in any recounted experience, gain a better understanding of the significance and the scope of testimonies.

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