Claire Gorrara

French Crime Fiction and the Second World War

Past Crimes, Present Memories

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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. -- .

Produktdetails

• Cultural History of Modern War
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 222g
• ISBN-13: 9780719095498
• ISBN-10: 0719095492
• Artikelnr.: 40478693

Autorenporträt

Claire Gorrara is Professor of French Studies at Cardiff University

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: mapping French memories of the Second World War 1. Resisters
and the resistance: challenging the epic in French crime fiction of the
1940s and 1950s 2. Forgotten crimes: representing Jewish wartime experience
in French crime fiction of the 1950s and 1960s 3. Resurgent collaboration:
revisiting collaboration in French crime fiction of the 1980s 4. Survivor
stories: representing persecution and extermination in French crime fiction
of the 1980s and 1990s 5. Mobilising memory: reading the Second World War
in children's crime fiction of the 1990s and 2000s Conclusion: Memories
past, present and future Bibliography Index