Identity papers : contested nationhood in twentieth-century France
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Identity papers : contested nationhood in twentieth-century France
University of Minnesota Press, c1996
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Includes bibliograpphical references and index
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ISBN 9780816626946
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What does citizenship mean? What is the process of "naturalization" one goes through in becoming a citizen, and what is its connection to assimilation? How do the issues of identity raised by this process manifest themselves in cultural production? These questions, and the way they arise in contemporary France, are the focus of this divers collection, In contrast to the traditional metaphor of the United States as melting pot, French government politics have long made the assertion of minority difference secondary to assimilation in the name of a single nation and culture. The contributors to this work explore the effects of imposed conformity by studying specific instances in which conflict of identity arise. Among the topics discussed are the 1937 Exposition Universelle; films dealing with Vichy France; Algerian independence; and nation building under Francois Mitterand.
Table of Contents
Introduction - questioning identity, Steven Ungar. Part 1: The nation exposed between the wars. Part 2: Colonial projections. Part 3: Screening Vichy. Part 4: memory as malaise and subversion.
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: pbk ISBN 9780816626953
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Identity Papers was first published in 1996. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.
What does citizenship mean? What is the process of "naturalization" one goes through in becoming a citizen, and what is its connection to assimilation? How do the issues of identity raised by this process manifest themselves in culture? These questions, and the way they arise in contemporary France, are the focus of this diverse collection.
The essays in this volume range in subject from fiction and essay to architecture and film. Among the topics discussed are the 1937 Exposition Universelle; films dealing with Vichy France; Francois Truffaut's Histoire d'Adele H.; the war of Algerian independence; and nation building under Francois Mitterrand.
Contributors: Anne Donadey, Elizabeth Ezra, Richard J. Golsan, Lynn A. Higgins, T. Jefferson Kline, Panivong Norindr, Shanny Peer, Rosemarie Scullion, David H. Slavin, Philip H. Solomon; Florianne Wild, .
Steven Ungar is professor of cinema and comparative literature at the University of Iowa and author of Scandal and Aftereffect: Blanchot and France since 1930 (Minnesota, 1995). Tom Conley is professor of French at Harvard University.
Table of Contents
Introduction - questioning identity, Steven Ungar. Part 1: The nation exposed between the wars. Part 2: Colonial projections. Part 3: Screening Vichy. Part 4: memory as malaise and subversion.
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