After the Deportation: Memory Battles in Postwar France

ISBN-13: 9781108478908 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 480 str.

New Jersey) Philip Nord (Princeton University

Opis

A total of 160,000 people, a mix of résistants and Jews, were deported from France to camps in Central and Eastern Europe during the Second World War. In this compelling new study, Philip Nord addresses how the Deportation, as it came to be known, was remembered after the war and how Deportation memory from the very outset, became politicized against the backdrop of changing domestic and international contexts. He shows how the Deportation generated competing narratives – Jewish, Catholic, Communist, and Gaullist – and analyzes the stories told by and about deportees after the war and how these stories were given form in literature, art, film, monuments, and ceremonials.

Recenzje

'This rich, nuanced, and often moving book uses a wide range of sources and methods-literary criticism, art history, and an analysis of philosophical debates-to make a major contribution to our understanding of how the French have remembered one of the most painful periods in their history.' Julian Jackson, The Journal of Interdisciplinary History

Spis treści

List of Figures; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I. Heroes and Martyrs; 1. Le Parti des Déportés; 2. The Concentrationary Universe; 3. Monster with One Eye Open; 4. The Triumph of the Spirit; 5. The Six Million; 6. The Thirty Years' War; Part II. Shoah; 7. Holocaust; 8. The Teaching of Contempt; 9. Witnesses; 10. Generation; 11. 'The Return of the Repressed'; 12. Shoah; Epilogue and Conclusion.