Identity Papers: Contested Nationhood in Twentieth-Century France - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0816626952 ISBN 13: 9780816626953

Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press, 1996

Synopsis

Identity Papers was first published in 1996. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.

What does citizenship mean? What is the process of "naturalization" one goes through in becoming a citizen, and what is its connection to assimilation? How do the issues of identity raised by this process manifest themselves in culture? These questions, and the way they arise in contemporary France, are the focus of this diverse collection.

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.

Contributors: Anne Donadey, Elizabeth Ezra, Richard J. Golsan, Lynn A. Higgins, T. Jefferson Kline, Panivong Norindr, Shanny Peer, Rosemarie Scullion, David H. Slavin, Philip H. Solomon; Florianne Wild, .

Steven Ungar is professor of cinema and comparative literature at the University of Iowa and author of Scandal and Aftereffect: Blanchot and France since 1930 (Minnesota, 1995). Tom Conley is professor of French at Harvard University.

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About the Author

Tom Conley is professor of French at Harvard University. Among his other books are Film Hieroglyphs, as well as translations of The Fold by Gilles Deleuze and The Year of Passages by Reda Bensmaia, All of these books are published by the University of Min

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Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible to scholars, students, researchers, and general readers. Rich with historical and cultural value, these works are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. The books offered through Minnesota Archive Editions are produced in limited quantities according to customer demand and are available through select distribution partners.

Edition details

• Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0816626952
• ISBN 13: 9780816626953
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 310
• Editor: Ungar Steven, Conley Tom