French crime fiction and the Second World War : past crimes, present memories
Gorrara, ClaireAuthor
Manchester : Manchester University Press,
2012.
By investigating representations of the war years in a selection of French crime novels from the mid-1940s to the present day this book argues for the importance of crime fiction, and popular culture more generally, as active agents of memory in the ongoing debates over the legacies of the war years in contemporary France.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
By investigating representations of the war years in a selection of French crime novels from the mid-1940s to the present day this book argues for the importance of crime fiction, and popular culture more generally, as active agents of memory in the ongoing debates over the legacies of the war years in contemporary France.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.
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.
Detective and mystery stories, French
French fiction
World War, 1939-1945
Romance Literatures
Languages & Literatures
French Literature