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French crime fiction and the Second World War : past crimes, present memories / Claire Gorrara.
Van Pelt Library PQ637.W35 G67 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gorrara, Claire.
- Series:
- Cultural history of modern war
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Detective and mystery stories, French--History and criticism.
- Detective and mystery stories, French.
- French fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- French fiction.
- World War, 1939-1945--Literature and the war.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- History.
- France--History--German occupation, 1940-1945--In literature.
- France.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 151 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester ; New York : Manchester UP ; New York : distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 138-146) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780719082658
- 071908265X
- OCLC:
- 796757168
- Publisher Number:
- 60001661780
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