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French Crime Fiction And The Second World War Past Crimes, Present Memories

Name: French Crime Fiction And The Second World War
Author: Claire Gorrara

Auteur: Claire Gorrara

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Claire Gorrara

Engels
Hardcover
9780719082658
31 augustus 2012
160 pagina's

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By investigating representations of the war years in a selection of French crime novels from the mid-1940s to the present day, this book argues for the importance of crime fiction, and popular culture more generally, as active agents of memory in the ongoing debates over the legacies of the war years in contemporary France.

French crime fiction and the Second World War explores France’s preoccupation with memories of the Second World War through an examination of popular culture in one of its most enduring forms: crime fiction. A populist literary form, French crime fiction offers fascinating insights into past and present perceptions of the war years in France, as well as the role that popular culture has played in both shaping and reflecting cultural memories of the Occupation. By analyzing representations of the war years in a selection of French crime novels from the late 1940s to the 2000s, this study contends that such texts open up new avenues for charting the two-way traffic between official discourses and popular reconstructions of such a contested conflict in French cultural memory.

Starting with narratives of the Resistance in the late 1940s and concluding with contemporary crime fiction for younger readers, this study examines popular memories of the Second World War in dialogue with the changing social, cultural and political contexts of remembrance in post-war France. From memories of the persecution of Jews and French collaboration to the legacies of the concentration camps and the figure of the survivor-witness, all the crime novels discussed grapple with the challenges of what it means to live in the shadow of such a past for generations past, present and future.

Aimed at students and researchers of French history and culture, this study demonstrates the important contribution crime fiction makes to our understanding of the rich and multiple memory discourses of the Second World War in contemporary France.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Hardcover
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 31 augustus 2012
Aantal pagina's: 160
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Hoofdauteur: Claire Gorrara
Hoofduitgeverij: Manchester University Press

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Product breedte: 138 mm
Product lengte: 216 mm
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Verpakking breedte: 138 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 19 mm
Verpakking lengte: 216 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 318 g

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Categorieën: Thrillers & Spanning

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Poëzie, Bloemlezingen & Letterkunde

Literatuurwetenschap

Europa

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Taal: Engels
Periode: 20e eeuw
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