French crime fiction and the Second World War: Past crimes, present memories

✍ Scribed by Claire Gorrara

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 160
• Series: Cultural History of Modern War
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front matter
Contents
Preface and acknowledgements
Introduction: Mapping French memories of the Second World War
Resisters and the resistance: Challenging the epic in French crime fiction of the 1940s and 1950s
Forgotten crimes: Representing Jewish wartime experience in French crime fiction of the 1950s and 1960s
Resurgent collaboration: Revisiting collaboration in French crime fiction of the 1980s
Survivor stories: Representing persecution and extermination in French crime fiction of the 1980s and 1990s
Mobilising memory: Reading the Second World War in children’s crime fiction of the 1990s and 2000s
Conclusion: Memories past, present and future
Bibliography
Index