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Author Golsan, Richard Joseph, 1952- author.

Title The Vichy past in France today : corruptions of memory / Richard J. Golsan.

Publication Info. Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, an imprint of The Rowman and Littlefield Publishing Group, Incorporated [2017]

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Description 1 online resource (xxvii, 139 pages)
text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-131) and index.
Contents France's fractured legal vector of memory -- The Le Pen moment -- Alain Badiou's The meaning of Sarkozy: "transcendental Petainism" and the ossification of history -- Remaking the Mode Retro: perversion and the "pulping" of history in Joonathan Litell's The Kindly Ones -- Revising history, betraying memory: Yannick Haenel's Jan Karski and the Kan Karski affair.
Summary This study examines the continuing impact of the memory of the Vichy regime and World War II in France. It analyzes recent political and intellectual debates, trials and the passage of contentious laws, historical controversies, and literary works and argues that the country has not yet reconciled with its past.
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Subject Collective memory -- France.
Collective memory.
France.
France -- Politics and government -- 21st century.
Politics and government.
Chronological Term 21st century
Subject France -- Intellectual life -- 21st century.
World War, 1939-1945 -- France -- Vichy.
France -- Politics and government -- 1940-1945.
Chronological Term 1940-1945
Subject Intellectual life.
HISTORY -- Europe -- France.
France -- Vichy.
World War (1939-1945)
Chronological Term 1939-2099
Since 1945
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: The Vichy past in France today Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. [2017] 9781498550321 (DLC) 2016959290
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