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In its totality, the "Long Second World War"-extending from the
beginning of the Spanish Civil War to the end of hostilities in
1945-has exerted enormous influence over European culture. Bringing
together leading historians, sociologists, and literary and film
scholars, this broadly interdisciplinary volume investigates
Europeans' individual and collective memories and the ways in which
they have shaped the continent's cultural heritage. Focusing on the
major combatant nations-Spain, Britain, France, Italy, Germany,
Poland, and Russia-it offers thoroughly contextualized explorations
of novels, memoirs, films, and a host of other cultural forms to
illuminate European public memory.
In its totality, the "Long Second World War"-extending from the
beginning of the Spanish Civil War to the end of hostilities in
1945-has exerted enormous influence over European culture. Bringing
together leading historians, sociologists, and literary and film
scholars, this broadly interdisciplinary volume investigates
Europeans' individual and collective memories and the ways in which
they have shaped the continent's cultural heritage. Focusing on the
major combatant nations-Spain, Britain, France, Italy, Germany,
Poland, and Russia-it offers thoroughly contextualized explorations
of novels, memoirs, films, and a host of other cultural forms to
illuminate European public memory.
This volume presents the intellectual autobiographies of fourteen
leading scholars in the fields of history, literature, film and
cultural studies who have dedicated a considerable part of their
career to researching the history and memories of France during the
Second World War. Basedin five different countries, Margaret Atack,
Marc Dambre, Laurent Douzou, Hilary Footitt, Robert Gildea, Richard
J. Golsan, Bertram M. Gordon, Christopher Lloyd, Colin Nettelbeck,
Denis Peschanski, Renee Poznanski, Henry Rousso, Peter Tame, and
Susan Rubin Suleiman have playeda crucial role in shaping and
reshaping what has become a thought-provoking field of research.
This volume, which also includes an interview with historian Robert
O. Paxton, clarifies the rationales and driving forces behind their
work and thus behind our current understanding of one of the
darkest and most vividly remembered pages of history in
contemporary France.
This volume presents the intellectual autobiographies of fourteen
leading scholars in the fields of history, literature, film and
cultural studies who have dedicated a considerable part of their
career to researching the history and memories of France during the
Second World War. Basedin five different countries, Margaret Atack,
Marc Dambre, Laurent Douzou, Hilary Footitt, Robert Gildea, Richard
J. Golsan, Bertram M. Gordon, Christopher Lloyd, Colin Nettelbeck,
Denis Peschanski, Renee Poznanski, Henry Rousso, Peter Tame, and
Susan Rubin Suleiman have playeda crucial role in shaping and
reshaping what has become a thought-provoking field of research.
This volume, which also includes an interview with historian Robert
O. Paxton, clarifies the rationales and driving forces behind their
work and thus behind our current understanding of one of the
darkest and most vividly remembered pages of history in
contemporary France.
This book analyses the successive appearances of Adolf Hitler in
French fiction between 1945 and 2017. It discusses why, unlike what
has been observed in the US and in the UK, it has proven
problematic for French novelists to write about Hitler in their
numerous fictional explorations of the Second World War. It
examines the literary and ethical challenges of including
historical characters such as Hitler in fiction, and demonstrates
how these challenges evolved over time as memories of the Second
World War also evolved in France. jhopok
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