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Vichy's afterlife : history and counterhistory in postwar France / Richard J. Golsan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Golsan, Richard Joseph, 1952-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Historians--France--Attitudes.
- Historians.
- War crime trials--France--Public opinion.
- War crime trials.
- Public opinion--France.
- Public opinion.
- France--History--German occupation, 1940-1945--Historiography.
- France.
- Vichy (France)--Politics and government--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Vichy (France).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 232 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- One of the distinctive features of the "Vichy Syndrome" -- the persistence of the memory of the Vichy regime in French political and cultural life -- is that it has been extremely difficult for an authoritative historical discourse to impose itself. Why does Vichy, and all that the name entails, fascinate and even obsess the French, inflecting not only discussions of the past but of the present as well?In Vichy's Afterlife, Richard J. Golsan explores the complexities of some of the most provocative episodes of Vichy's curious persistence in France's national consciousness. He argues that each of these episodes, events, and scandals, constitutes a crossroads where history and "counterhistory" -- different or competing versions of the past -- encounter one another, often with explosive and even destructive consequences.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-218) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8032-0289-X
- OCLC:
- 50681051
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