Traces of war interpreting ethics and trauma in twentieth-century French writing
The legacy of the Second World War remains unsettled; no consensus has been achieved about its meaning and its lasting impact. This is pre-eminently the case in France, where the experience of defeat and occupation created the grounds for a deeply ambiguous mixture of resistance and collaboration, p...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Liverpool
Liverpool University Press
2019, 2019
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| Series: | Contemporary French and francophone cultures / Contemporary French and francophone cultures
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| Collection: | Oxford University Press - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | The legacy of the Second World War remains unsettled; no consensus has been achieved about its meaning and its lasting impact. This is pre-eminently the case in France, where the experience of defeat and occupation created the grounds for a deeply ambiguous mixture of resistance and collaboration, pride and humiliation, heroism and abjection, which writers and politicians have been trying to disentangle ever since. This text develops a theoretical approach which draws on trauma studies and hermeneutics; and it then focuses on some of the intellectuals who lived through the war and on how their experience and troubled memories of it continue to echo through their later writing, even and especially when it is not the explicit topic |
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| Item Description: | Previously issued in print: 2018 |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| ISBN: | 9781786945112 |