Includes bibliographical references (pages 138-146) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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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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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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.
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JSTOR
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22573/ctt1vwgg0j
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International Standard Book Number
071908265X
CORPORATE BODY NAME USED AS SUBJECT
German Occupation of France, (1940-1945)
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Detective and mystery stories, French-- History and criticism.
French fiction-- 20th century-- History and criticism.
World War, 1939-1945-- Literature and the war.
Detective and mystery stories, French.
French fiction.
LITERARY CRITICISM-- European-- French.
Literature.
War and literature.
GEOGRAPHICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
France, History, German occupation, 1940-1945, In literature.