Table of Contents
Introduction: Demythologizing the Occupation
On Literature and the Occupation of France: Blanchot vs. Drieu
Myths of Apocalypse and Renewal: Jean Giono and “Literary” Collaboration
What It Meant to Be “A Jew” in Vichy France: Xavier Vallat, State Anti-Semitism, and the Question of Assimilation
L’Eternel retour: Reflection of the Occupation’s Crisis in French Masculinity?
Sleeping with the Enemy: Jean Genet’s Erotic Reconfiguration of the Occupation
Francis Ponge, Le Savon, and the Occupation
Georges Perec, W, and the Memory of Vichy France
D’un passé l’autre: aux portes de l’histoire avec Patrick Modiano by Ora Avni
Femmes rebelles. Naissance d’un nouveau roman africain au féminin by Odile Cazenave
Simone de Beauvoir: A Critical Introduction by Kate Fullbrook, Edward Fullbrook
L’écriture décentrée. La langue de l’Autre dans le roman contemporain by Michel Laronde
Carlo Emilio Gadda and the Modern Macaronic by Albert Sbragia
The Aesthetic Contract. Statutes of Art and Intellectual Work in Modernity by Henry Sussman
Defining Russia Musically: Historical and Hermeneutical Essays by Richard Taruskin