Title: Resistance heroism and the end of empire : the life and times of Madeleine Riffaud /
Authors: Chiaroni, Keren,
Year: 2017
Subjects: Riffaud, Madeleine; Women revolutionaries France Paris Biography.; Revolutionaries France Paris Biography.; World War, 1939-1945 Underground movements France Paris.; Guerrillas France Paris Biography.; Women guerrillas France Paris Biography.; Journalists France Biography; Women journalists France Biography.; Poets Biography; Women poets Biography.; Revolutionaries France Paris Biography.; Women revolutionaries France Paris Biography.
Abstract: "This book introduces an English-speaking public to the life of Madeleine Riffaud - one of the last living leaders of the French Resistance. It considers the nature of the rebel hero in France's founding historical narratives (revolution, insurrection, resistance) while asking what contributions such a hero might make to debates on national identity today."--Provided by publisher.
Contents: Introduction: Portrait of a rebel -- Dramatis personae -- Defining features: Riffaud and the Résistance -- Vietnam: a love story -- Algeria and France: a crime passionnel -- Poetry as a weapon of war -- Edme Liron: the ancestral portrait -- The portrait revisited -- Rainer or Riffaud?.