Table of Contents
Introduction: The Politics of French Literary History
Revisiting A New History of French Literature
The Politics of French Literary History in the US and France Today
Celine: The Success of the Monstre Sacre in Postwar France
Paul Morand: The Paradoxes of “Revision”
Of Books, Bombs, and Backward Thinking: Jean Dutourd’s Reactionary Literary History
What the Nazis Saw: Les Mouches in Occupied Paris
“Une voiture peut en cacher une autre”: Twentieth-Century Women Writers Read George Sand
Passages Beyond the Resistance: Char’s Seuls demeurent and its Harmonics in Semprun and Foucault
Michel Leiris: Race, Poetry, Politics: Rereading the Mission Lucas
The Anti-Colonial Archive: France and Africa’s Unfinished Business
Blood in the City: Violence and Revelation in Paris, 1789-1945 (review)
French Modernisms: Perspectives on Art Before, During, and After Vichy (review)
Loss: The Politics of Mourning (review)
Drieu la Rochelle ou le bal des maudits (review)
Double Dialectics: Between Universalism and Relativism in Enlightenment and Postmodern Thought (review)