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Book SynopsisBrings together an internationally distinguished group of contributors and offers an authoritative overview of criticism on war and occupation narratives in French, a redefinition of the canon of texts and films to be studied, and a vibrant demonstration of the richness of the work in this area. -- .
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Table of ContentsTABLE OF CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INTRODUCTION Margaret Atack & Christopher Lloyd
PART I: CONSTRUCTING THE WAR IN NARRATIVE
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1. Gisèle Sapiro: The role of literature in framing perceptions of reality: the example of the Second World War
2. William Cloonan: Representing the war: contemporary narratives of World War Two
3. Colin Nettelbeck: Getting at the truth: some issues of sources in the construction of an understanding of the Second World War and Occupation in France
4. Nathalie Aubert: La Main à plume: poetry under the Occupation
5. Thomas Newman: A reading of Genet’s adaptations from the Russian novel in his Occupation narratives
6. Peter Tame: Private and public spaces and places in Jonathan Littell’s Les Bienveillantes
7. Béatrice Damamme-Gilbert: Henry Bauchau’s Le Boulevard périphérique: The war story as clarification and investigation of the present
PART II: REPRESENTATION AND RECEPTION
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8. Richard J Golsan: Corruptions of memory: some reflections on history, representation and le devoir de mémoire in France today
9. Debra Kelly: Lived experience past/reading experience present: figures of memory in French life-writing narratives of the Occupation
10. Angela Kershaw: Fictions of testimony: Irène Némirovsky and Suite française
11. Virginie Sansico: Hoaxes and the memory of the Second World War: from Un Héros très discret to Misha Defonseca
12. Penny Brown: Framing the past: illustrating the Second World War in French children’s fiction
13. Angela O’Flaherty: The traumatised national community in Anna Langfus’s Les Bagages de sable
14. Luc Rasson: When the SS-man says I: on Robert Merle, Michel Rachline and Jonathan Littell
PART III: TRAJECTORIES
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15. Leah Hewitt: Distorted mirrors: Jewish identity in French post-war films on the Occupation
16. Hilary Footitt: The liberal way of war? French representations of the Allies 1944-2008
17. Danièle Sabbah: ‘Avoir vingt ans dans cette effroyable tourmente’ : Second World War Diaries in the Light of Hélène Berr’s Journal
18. David Uhrig: Maurice Blanchot’s Aminadab: a novel about collective memory under Vichy
19. Katherine Cardin: Life as an ‘enfant de collabo’: Marie Chaix’s evolution 1974-2005
20. Alan Morris: ‘Un Passé qui ne passe pas’: Patrick Modiano’s Accident nocturne and Dans le café de la jeunesse perdue
CONCLUSION
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX
