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Author:
Gorrara, Claire.
Title:
French crime fiction and the Second World War : past crimes, present memories / Claire Gorrara.
Publisher:
Manchester UP ;
Copyright Date:
2012
Description:
viii, 151 p. ; 23 cm.
Subject:
Detective and mystery stories, French--History and criticism.
French fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
World War, 1939-1945--Literature and the war.
France--In literature.--German occupation, 1940-1945--In literature.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p.138-146) and index.
Contents:
Introduction : mapping French memories of the Second World War -- Resisters and the resistance : challenging the epic in French crime fiction of the 1940s and 1950s -- Forgotten crimes : representing Jewish wartime experience in French crime fiction of the 1950s and 1960s -- Resurgent collaboration : revisiting collaboration in French crime fiction of the 1980s -- Survivor stories : representing persecution and extermination in French crime fiction of the 1980s and 1990s -- Mobilising memory : reading the Second World War in children's crime fiction of the 1990s and 2000s -- Conclusion : memories past, present and future.
Series:
Cultural history of modern war
ISBN:
071908265X
9780719082658
OCLC:
(OCoLC)796757168
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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