Ego-histories of France and the Second World War : writing Vichy
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Ego-histories of France and the Second World War : writing Vichy
（The Holocaust and its contexts）
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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This volume presents the intellectual autobiographies of fourteen leading scholars in the fields of history, literature, film and cultural studies who have dedicated a considerable part of their career to researching the history and memories of France during the Second World War. Basedin five different countries, Margaret Atack, Marc Dambre, Laurent Douzou, Hilary Footitt, Robert Gildea, Richard J. Golsan, Bertram M. Gordon, Christopher Lloyd, Colin Nettelbeck, Denis Peschanski, Renee Poznanski, Henry Rousso, Peter Tame, and Susan Rubin Suleiman have playeda crucial role in shaping and reshaping what has become a thought-provoking field of research. This volume, which also includes an interview with historian Robert O. Paxton, clarifies the rationales and driving forces behind their work and thus behind our current understanding of one of the darkest and most vividly remembered pages of history in contemporary France.
Table of Contents
- Part 1: Opening Reflections.- 1.Introduction: Ego-histories, France and the Second World War
- Manuel Braganca & Fransiska Louwagie.- 2.Interview with Robert O. Paxton, on the writing of history and ego-history
- Robert O. Paxton with Manuel Braganca & Fransiska Louwagie.- Part 2: Voices from France.- 3.Currents and Counter-currents
- Marc Dambre.- 4.Resisting Fragments
- Laurent Douzou.- 5. From a foreign country
- Henry Rousso.- 6. On Chance and Necessity
- Denis Peschanski.- Part 3: Voices across the Channel.- 7. In the Forests of the Night: England, France and the Writing of War
- Margaret Atack.- 8. Searching for 'Contact Zones' in France's war
- Hilary Footitt.- 9.A tale of two Frances and a curious ancestor
- Robert Gildea.- 10.Vichy, Kingdom of Shadows
- Christopher Lloyd.- 11.Writers in conflict
- Peter Tame.- Part 4: Voices from far and near.- 12.Good Fortune, Good Friends
- Richard J. Golsan.- 13. The Other Side: Investigating the Collaborationists in World War II France
- Bertram M. Gordon.- 14.When faced with the question
- Colin Nettelbeck.- 15.Born in Paris...
- Renee Poznanski.- 16.Reaching Vichy via Budapest: On Zigzags, Waves and Triangles in Intellectual Life
- Susan Rubin Suleiman.- Part 5: Closing Reflections.- 17. Conclusion: cross-perspectives on ego-history
- Manuel Braganca & Fransiska Louwagie.- Index
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