Journal of European Studies articles

Recent articles from Journal of European Studies

Introduction.(Panel Discussion)
June 1, 2005... In the twenty years since Pierre Nora began publishing his landmark work on Les Lieux de memoire (Nora, 1984-92), the study of memory, especially in its collective forms, has become a veritable industry. If historians such as Nora were to the fore in giving momentum to the field of study,...

Memory at the front: the struggle over revolutionary commemoration in occupied France, 1940-1944.
June 1, 2005... The period of Occupied France presents a striking example of the failure of memory studies thus far to penetrate certain essential questions in French historiography. Despite its paramount importance, the memory of the French Revolution during the Occupation years has received little serious...

Viewing memory through Night and Fog, The Sorrow and the Pity and Shoah.
June 1, 2005... Between 1955 and 1983, three French film documentaries displaced our understanding of the events of World War II: Nuit et brouillard by Alain Resnais, Le Chagrin et la pitie by Marcel Ophuls and Claude Lanzmann's Shoah. These are films that reveal specific moments in France's difficult path...

Remembrance of things past: trauma and mourning in Perec's W ou le souvenir d'enfance.
June 1, 2005... Perec's W is studied as a "memory text' revealing the effects of the trauma associated with the loss of his parents during the Second World War. Perec's text recognizes the mourning process as an engagement with the aporia created by the inability to bear witness. A dialogical relationship is...

The Gaulish and the feudal as lieux de memoire in post-war French abstraction.
June 1, 2005... If gestural abstract painting was an artistic practice that turned away from figuration and legible meanings, there was nevertheless a struggle over its interpretation and orientation in post-war Paris. This struggle is exemplified by two exhibitions that took place in the 1950s: Perennite de...