Identity papers : contested nationhood in twentieth-century France /

What does citizenship mean? 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; François Truffaut's Histoire d'Adèle H.; the war of Algerian independence...

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Other Authors: Ungar, Steven, 1945-, Conley, Tom
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis, Minn. : University of Minnesota Press, 1996
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: questioning identity / Steven Ungar
  • Peasants in Paris: representations of rural France in the 1937 International Exposition / Shanny Peer
  • Colonialism exposed: Miss France d'Outre-mer, 1937 / Elizabeth Ezra
  • Céline on the 1937 Paris Exposition Universelle as Jewish conspiracy / Philip H. Solomon
  • Pagnol and the paradoxes of Frenchness / Lynn A. Higgins
  • Heart of darkness, heart of light: the civilizing mission in L'Atlantide / David H. Slavin
  • Collaboration and context: Lacombe Lucien, the mode rétro, and the Vichy syndrome / Richard J. Golsan
  • Family fictions and reproductive realities in Vichy France: Claude Chabrol's Une affaire de femmes / Rosemarie Scullion
  • L'Histoire ressuscitée: Jewishness and scapegoating in Julien Duvivier's Panique / Florianne Wild
  • Truffaut's Adèle in the New World: autobiography as subversion of history / T. Jefferson Kline
  • "Une certaine idée de la France": the Algeria syndrome and struggles over "French" identity / Anne Donadey
  • La plus grande France: French cultural identity and nation building under Mitterrand / Panivong Norindr
  • The Coluche effect / Steven Ungar
  • Identity: never more / Tom Conley.