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Title Identity papers : contested nationhood in twentieth-century France / Steven Ungar and Tom Conley, editors
Published Minneapolis, Minn. : University of Minnesota Press, ©1996

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 299 pages)
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
Summary 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; and nation building under François Mitterrand
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject National characteristics, French.
Multiculturalism -- France
Nationalism in literature.
Ethnicity -- France
French.
HISTORY.
HISTORY -- Europe -- France.
French
Civilization
Ethnicity
Multiculturalism
National characteristics, French
Nationalism in literature
SUBJECT France -- Civilization -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051193
Subject France
Form Electronic book
Author Ungar, Steven, 1945-
Conley, Tom.
ISBN 9780816686896
0816686890