Traces of War: Interpreting Ethics and Trauma in Twentieth-Century French Writing

by Colin Davis

The legacy of the Second World War remains unsettled; no consensus has been achieved about its meaning and its lasting impact. This is pre-eminently the case in France, where the experience of defeat and occupation created the grounds for a deeply ambiguous mixture of resistance and collaboration, pride and humiliation, heroism and abjection, which writers and politicians have been trying to disentangle ever since. This book develops a theoretical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1786940426
• ISBN13: 9781786940421
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.6"