A Legacy of Shame

Language: English

Published by Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, CH, 2013

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A Legacy of Shame is the first in-depth study of shame in French narratives of the Second World War and the Nazi Occupation of France. Wartime shame continues to be a recurrent theme in literature and film and is an ongoing topic of cultural and political debate and yet the problem of shame has only been mentioned incidentally by cultural critics. In the concluding lines of Le Syndrome de Vichy, Henry Rousso locates the 'syndrome', the continual return of wartime memories in the present, in the postwar desire to restore national unity and identity. This book proposes that beneath Rousso's syndrome lies a disintegrated sense of shame. Although this shame is painfully exposed in narratives, it remains unacknowledged as a collective, national memory and has consequently continued to trouble postwar constructions of national identity and history. By investigating narrative expressions of shame and theories of shame produced by the events of this historical moment, the book examines the issues that this legacy presents for cultural history, collective memory and, implicitly, for postwar national identity. This book is the winner of the Peter Lang Young Scholars Competition in French Studies 2011.…

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Title
A Legacy of Shame
Author
Ruth Kitchen
Publisher
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, CH
Publication year
2013
Condition
New
Binding
Hardback
Language
English
ISBN 10
3034308566
ISBN 13
9783034308564
Item weight
400 grams

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