Claire Gorrara

French crime fiction and the Second World War (eBook, PDF)

Past crimes, present memories

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Produktbeschreibung

This study explores France's preoccupation with memories of the Second World War through an examination of popular culture and one of its more enduring forms, crime fiction. It examines what such popular narratives have to tell us about past and present perceptions of the war years in France and how they relate to post-war debates over memory, culture and national identity.

Starting with narratives of the Resistance in the late 1940s and concluding with contemporary crime fiction for younger readers, Gorrara 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526130181
• Artikelnr.: 54363449

Autorenporträt

Claire Gorrara is Professor of French Studies at Cardiff University

Inhaltsangabe

Preface 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