Gorrara French crime fiction and the Second World War

Past crimes, present memories
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-5261-3018-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 160 Seiten, Web PDF, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm

Reihe: Cultural History of Modern War

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gorrara, Claire

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Gorrara Claire:
Claire Gorrara is Professor of French Studies at Cardiff UniversityClaire Gorrara is Professor of French Studies at Cardiff University