Framing Narratives of the Second World War and Occupation in France, 1939–2009

TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS INTRODUCTION Margaret Atack & Christopher Lloyd PART I: CONSTRUCTING THE WAR IN NARRATIVE INTRODUCTION 1. Gisèle Sapiro: The role of literature in framing perceptions of reality: the example of the Second World War 2. William Cloonan: Representing the war: contemporary narratives of World War Two 3. Colin Nettelbeck: Getting at the truth: some issues of sources in the construction of an understanding of the Second World War and Occupation in France 4. Nathalie Aubert: La Main à plume: poetry under the Occupation 5. Thomas Newman: A reading of Genet’s adaptations from the Russian novel in his Occupation narratives 6. Peter Tame: Private and public spaces and places in Jonathan Littell’s Les Bienveillantes 7. Béatrice Damamme-Gilbert: Henry Bauchau’s Le Boulevard périphérique: The war story as clarification and investigation of the present PART II: REPRESENTATION AND RECEPTION INTRODUCTION 8. Richard J Golsan: Corruptions of memory: some reflections on history, representation and le devoir de mémoire in France today 9. Debra Kelly: Lived experience past/reading experience present: figures of memory in French life-writing narratives of the Occupation 10. Angela Kershaw: Fictions of testimony: Irène Némirovsky and Suite française 11. Virginie Sansico: Hoaxes and the memory of the Second World War: from Un Héros très discret to Misha Defonseca 12. Penny Brown: Framing the past: illustrating the Second World War in French children’s fiction 13. Angela O’Flaherty: The traumatised national community in Anna Langfus’s Les Bagages de sable 14. Luc Rasson: When the SS-man says I: on Robert Merle, Michel Rachline and Jonathan Littell PART III: TRAJECTORIES INTRODUCTION 15. Leah Hewitt: Distorted mirrors: Jewish identity in French post-war films on the Occupation 16. Hilary Footitt: The liberal way of war? French representations of the Allies 1944-2008 17. Danièle Sabbah: ‘Avoir vingt ans dans cette effroyable tourmente’ : Second World War Diaries in the Light of Hélène Berr’s Journal 18. David Uhrig: Maurice Blanchot’s Aminadab: a novel about collective memory under Vichy 19. Katherine Cardin: Life as an ‘enfant de collabo’: Marie Chaix’s evolution 1974-2005 20. Alan Morris: ‘Un Passé qui ne passe pas’: Patrick Modiano’s Accident nocturne and Dans le café de la jeunesse perdue CONCLUSION NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS INDEX -- .