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

By:

Golsan, Richard Joseph, 1952- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, an imprint of The Rowman and Littlefield Publishing Group, Incorporated [2017]Description: 1 online resource (xxvii, 139 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781498550338
1498550339

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Vichy past in France todayDDC classification:

944.084 23

LOC classification:

DC430

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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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Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-131) and index.

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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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