Feeling Memory - Remembering Wartime Childhoods in France

What did it feel like to be a child in France during World War II? Feeling Memory is an affective exploration of children's lives in wartime France and the ways they are remembered.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Chronology
A Note on Transcription and Translation
Introduction
Pause—Anne-Marie and Her Father
Positioning
Part I. Memories Felt
1. Articulated Feeling
Pause—Daniel: Fear on the Road
2. Affects and Intensities
Pause—Nicole: Inside Drancy
Part II. Memories Located
Pause—Nancette: Happy Places, Happy Times
3. The Weirdness of Memory Time
4. Places in Traumatic Memory
5. Spaces in Traumatic Memory
Pause—Hélène: Persecution and Space
Part III. Memories Told
Pause—Filming Marie-Madeleine
6. Regimes of Memory, Regimes of Feeling
7. Communities of Memory, Communities of Feeling
Pause—Édith and Jean Compete
Part IV. Memories Lived
8. Materialities of the Everyday
Pause—Henri Plays at War
9. Affective Others
Pause—Danièle: The Strain of Uncertainty
Pause—Robert: The Contingency of Moral Meaning
10. Contingency and Rupture
Conclusion: A Palette of Haecceities
Appendix: The Interviewees
Notes
Bibliography

About the author

Lindsey Dodd is an independent historian and oral historian. Until 2023 she was reader in modern European history at the University of Huddersfield. She is the author of French Children Under the Allied Bombs, 1940–1945: An Oral History (2016) and coeditor of Vichy France and Everyday Life: Confronting the Challenges of Wartime (2018). She is also part of the editorial team for the journal Oral History.

Summary

What did it feel like to be a child in France during World War II? Feeling Memory is an affective exploration of children’s lives in wartime France and the ways they are remembered.

Product details

• Authors: Lindsey Dodd, Dodd Lindsey
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.07.2023
• EAN: 9780231209199
• ISBN: 978-0-231-20919-9
• No. of pages: 400
• Series: The Columbia Oral History Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; France, European History, HISTORY / Europe / France, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Historiography, Historiography, Second World War, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / European Theater, history; memory; World War II; France