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French crime fiction and the Second World War : Past crimes, present memories.

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 year...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gorrara, Claire
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Manchester University Press, 2017.
Colección:Cultural history of modern war.
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  • French crime fiction and the Second World War: Past crimes, present memories; Half Title Page; Series Editors; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Preface and acknowledgements; 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 1990s5. Mobilising memory: Reading the Second World War in childrenâ#x80;#x99;s crime fiction of the 1990s and 2000s; Conclusion: Memories past, present and future; Bibliography; Index.