TABLE OF CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INTRODUCTION Margaret Atack & Christopher Lloyd
PART I: CONSTRUCTING THE WAR IN NARRATIVE
INTRODUCTION
1. Gisèle Sapiro: The role of literature in framing perceptions of
reality: the example of the Second World War
2. William Cloonan: Representing the war: contemporary narratives
of World War Two
3. Colin Nettelbeck: Getting at the truth: some issues of sources
in the construction of an understanding of the Second World War and
Occupation in France
4. Nathalie Aubert: La main à plume: poetry under the
Occupation
5. Thomas Newman: A reading of Genet's adaptations from the Russian
novel in his Occupation narratives
6. Peter Tame: Private and public spaces and places in Jonathan
Littell's Les bienveillantes
7. Béatrice Damamme-Gilbert: Henry Bauchau's Le boulevard
périphérique: The war story as clarification and investigation of
the present
PART II: REPRESENTATION AND RECEPTION
INTRODUCTION
8. Richard J Golsan: Corruptions of memory: some reflections on
history, representation and le devoir de mémoire in France
today
9. Debra Kelly: Lived experience past/reading experience present:
figures of memory in French life-writing narratives of the
Occupation
10. Angela Kershaw: Fictions of testimony: Irène Némirovsky and
Suite française
11. Virginie Sansico: Hoaxes and the memory of the Second World
War: from Un héros très discret to Misha Defonseca
12. Penny Brown: Framing the past: illustrating the Second World
War in French children's fiction
13. Angela O'Flaherty: The traumatised national community in Anna
Langfus's Les bagages de sable
14. Luc Rasson: When the SS-man says I: on Robert Merle, Michel
Rachline and Jonathan Littell
PART III: TRAJECTORIES
INTRODUCTION
15. Leah Hewitt: Distorted mirrors: Jewish identity in French
post-war films on the Occupation
16. Hilary Footitt: The liberal way of war? French representations
of the Allies 1944-2008
17. Danièle Sabbah: 'Avoir vingt ans dans cette effroyable
tourmente' : Second World War Diaries in the light of Hélène Berr's
journal
18. David Uhrig: Maurice Blanchot's Aminadab: a novel about
collective memory under Vichy
19. Katherine Cardin: Life as an 'enfant de collabo': Marie Chaix's
evolution 1974-2005
20. Alan Morris: 'Un Passé qui ne passe pas': Patrick Modiano's
Accident nocturne and Dans le café de la jeunesse perdue
CONCLUSION
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX
Margaret Atack is Professor of French at the University of Leeds|Christopher Lloyd is Professor of French at Durham University
...excellent volume, Manuel Braganca, Queen's University Belfast,
Modern & Contemporary France, 21:3, 29 May 2013|...does not
disappoint., Chris Reyns-Chikuma, University of Alberta,
Contemporary French Civilization, 2013
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