A Legacy of Shame
French Narratives of War and Occupation
Seiten
2013
Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic Publishers (Verlag)
978-3-0343-0856-4 (ISBN)
Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic Publishers (Verlag)
978-3-0343-0856-4 (ISBN)
This book examines the question of shame in French narratives of World War II and the Nazi Occupation and the issues that this presents for cultural history, collective memory and postwar national identity. Wartime shame continues to be a recurrent theme in literature and film but this is the first in-depth study of the issue.
lt;i>A Legacy of Shame is the first in-depth study of shame in French narratives of the Second World War and the Nazi Occupation of France. Wartime shame continues to be a recurrent theme in literature and film and is an ongoing topic of cultural and political debate and yet the problem of shame has only been mentioned incidentally by cultural critics. In the concluding lines of Le Syndrome de Vichy, Henry Rousso locates the 'syndrome', the continual return of wartime memories in the present, in the postwar desire to restore national unity and identity. This book proposes that beneath Rousso's syndrome lies a disintegrated sense of shame. Although this shame is painfully exposed in narratives, it remains unacknowledged as a collective, national memory and has consequently continued to trouble postwar constructions of national identity and history. By investigating narrative expressions of shame and theories of shame produced by the events of this historical moment, the book examines the issues that this legacy presents for cultural history, collective memory and, implicitly, for postwar national identity.
This book is the winner of the Peter Lang Young Scholars Competition in French Studies 2011.
lt;i>A Legacy of Shame is the first in-depth study of shame in French narratives of the Second World War and the Nazi Occupation of France. Wartime shame continues to be a recurrent theme in literature and film and is an ongoing topic of cultural and political debate and yet the problem of shame has only been mentioned incidentally by cultural critics. In the concluding lines of Le Syndrome de Vichy, Henry Rousso locates the 'syndrome', the continual return of wartime memories in the present, in the postwar desire to restore national unity and identity. This book proposes that beneath Rousso's syndrome lies a disintegrated sense of shame. Although this shame is painfully exposed in narratives, it remains unacknowledged as a collective, national memory and has consequently continued to trouble postwar constructions of national identity and history. By investigating narrative expressions of shame and theories of shame produced by the events of this historical moment, the book examines the issues that this legacy presents for cultural history, collective memory and, implicitly, for postwar national identity.
This book is the winner of the Peter Lang Young Scholars Competition in French Studies 2011.
Ruth Kitchen is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Leeds. Her research examines twentieth- and twenty-first-century French literature, film, philosophy and cultural history. Her next project will examine the philosophical and educational theories underpinning cultural representations of deafness in Francophone cinema.
Contents: Abortive Shame: Unfinished Mourning - Reflections of Shame: The Broken Mirror - The Return of Shame: Mourning and Obsession - Shame and Collaboration: The Laws of Forgetting - Shame and Resistance: Repression, Repeating, Remembering - From Guilt to Shame and Back.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 29.8.2013 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Bern |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 150 x 225 mm |
| Gewicht | 400 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Romanistik | |
| Schlagworte | Cultural History • French • Identity • Kitchen • legacy • Narratives • National Unity • Occupation • Ruth • Shame |
| ISBN-10 | 3-0343-0856-6 / 3034308566 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-3-0343-0856-4 / 9783034308564 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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