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Identity Papers: Scenes of Contested Nationhood in Twentieth-Century France »

Authors: Steven Ungar (Editor), Tom Conley
ISBN-13: 9780816626946, ISBN-10: 0816626944
Format: Other Format
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Date Published: January 1996
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Steven Ungar

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.

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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.

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction / Questioning Identity	1
I	The Nation Exposed between the Wars
1	Peasants in Paris: Representations of Rural France in the 1937 International Exposition	19
2	Colonialism Exposed: Miss France d'Outre-mer, 1937	50
3	Celine on the 1937 Paris Exposition Universelle as Jewish Conspiracy	66
II	Colonial Projections
4	Pagnol and the Paradoxes of Frenchness	91
5	Heart of Darkness, Heart of Light: The Civilizing Mission in L'Atlantide	113
III	Screening Vichy
6	Collaboration and Context: Lacombe Lucien, the Mode Retro, and the Vichy Syndrome	139
7	Family Fictions and Reproductive Realities in Vichy France: Claude Chabrol's Une Affaire de femmes	156
8	L'Histoire ressuscitee: Jewishness and Scapegoating in Julien Duvivier's Panique	178
IV	Memory as Malaise and Subversion
9	Truffaut's Adele in the New World: Autobiography as Subversion of History	195
10	"Une Certain Idee de la France": The Algeria Syndrome and Struggles over "French" Identity	215
11	La Plus Grande France: French Cultural Identity and Nation Building under Mitterrand	233
12	The Coluche Effect	259
	Afterword. Identity: Never More	272
	Contributors	283
	Index	287