Journal of European Studies articles from June 2005

Journal of European Studies archives from June 2005

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The politics of counter-memory on the French extreme right.
June 1, 2005... This article examines the forms, the modes of dissemination and some of the recent topics of revisionist historical writing in France's extreme right-wing subculture today. Over the last two centuries shared understandings of French national...

Transmission problems: memory, community and the republican idea in contemporary France.
June 1, 2005... In recent years, Editions du Seuil have published a series of small volumes aimed at a wide audience and bearing such titles as La Republique expliquee a ma fille or L'Amour de la France explique a mon ills. Well-known novelists, historians and...