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Informationen zum Autor Margaret Atack is Professor of French at the University of LeedsChristopher Lloyd is Professor of French at Durham University Klappentext The Second World War and the German Occupation continue to be a major focal point in French culture and society, with new and sometimes controversial titles appearing every year - Irène Némirovsky's Suite française and Jonathan Littell's Les Bienveillantes, both rapidly translated into English, offer just two examples of this significant phenomenon in the last decade. There has, however, been no major critical reappraisal of narratives of war and occupation in France for over two decades. Gathering within one volume studies of genres, visual cultures, chronology, narrative theory, and a wealth of narratives in fiction and film, Framing narratives of the Second World War and occupation in France 1939-2009 brings 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. Given that literary, autobiographical and visual representations have played, and continue to play, an active role in shaping understanding of this complex and important period of French history, the volume focuses upon three main areas: the narrative construction of war and occupation, the importance of the expectations and knowledge of the public in shaping these narratives, and the ways they have evolved over the past seven decades. Edited by two leading specialists in the field, this book includes contributions by William Cloonan, Richard J Golsan, Leah Hewitt, Colin Nettelbeck and Gisèle Sapiro. Zusammenfassung Brings 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. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis TABLE OF CONTENTSACKNOWLEDGEMENTS INTRODUCTION Margaret Atack & Christopher Lloyd PART I: CONSTRUCTING THE WAR IN NARRATIVE INTRODUCTION 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 INTRODUCTION 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 Jonatha...
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Margaret Atack is Professor of French at the University of LeedsChristopher Lloyd is Professor of French at Durham University
