Introduction: Loss, mourning, memory -- Specters of the sixties -- French postmodern -- Le Débat, year one : the generation of 1980 -- The return of the prophet : Bourdieu, Zola, and the Dreyfusist legacy -- Desperately seeking Marianne : the uses of the republic -- Memory wars -- Old wine, new skins : race, laïcité, Frenchness -- Conclusion.
Summary:
"A study of the cultural politics of loss and mourning in France from 1978 to the present. Focuses on national identity, secularism, Jacobin republicanism, and political-cultural exceptionalism"--Provided by publisher.
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