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Author Gorrara, Claire, author.

Title French crime fiction and the Second World War : past crimes, present memories / Claire Gorrara.

Publication Info. Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2014.

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Description 1 online resource.
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Series Cultural history of modern war
Cultural history of modern war.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 138-146) and index.
Summary 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.
Contents 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.
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Subject German Occupation of France (France : 1940-1945)
World War (1939-1945)
Detective and mystery stories, French -- History and criticism.
Detective and mystery stories, French.
French fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
French fiction.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Literature and the war.
France -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945 -- In literature.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Other Form: Print version: 9780719082658 071908265X
ISBN 1781704678 (electronic book)
9781781704677 (electronic book)
1526130181 (electronic book)
9781526130181 (electronic book)
9780719082658
071908265X
Standard No. 60001661780