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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784369803321

Titolo

Identity papers : contested nationhood in twentieth-century France / / editors, Steven Ungar, Tom Conley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis : , : University of Minnesota Press, , 1996

©1996

ISBN

0-8166-8689-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 299 pages)

Altri autori (Persone)

UngarSteven <1945->

ConleyTom

Disciplina

944.08

Soggetti

National characteristics, French

Multiculturalism - France

Nationalism in literature

Ethnicity - France

France Civilization 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliograpphical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Questioning Identity; I: The Nation Exposed between the Wars; II: Colonial Projections; III: Screening Vichy; IV: Memory as Malaise and Subversion; Afterword Identity: Never More; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.