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

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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...

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Autor principal: Gorrara, Claire (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
War and literature.
Literature.
French fiction.
Detective and mystery stories, French.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > French.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Litterature et guerre.
Roman français > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
World War, 1939-1945 > Literature and the war.
French fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Detective and mystery stories, French > History and criticism.
France.
France > History > German occupation, 1940-1945 > In literature.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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