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

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, p...

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Main Author: Davis, Colin (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Liverpool Liverpool University Press 2017
Series:Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures
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