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 |
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Print version record |
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National characteristics, French.
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Multiculturalism -- France
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Nationalism in literature.
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Ethnicity -- France
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French.
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HISTORY.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- France.
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French
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Civilization
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Ethnicity
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Multiculturalism
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National characteristics, French
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Nationalism in literature
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France -- Civilization -- 20th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051193
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France
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Electronic book
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Author |
Ungar, Steven, 1945-
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Conley, Tom.
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ISBN |
9780816686896 |
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0816686890 |
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