Journal of European Studies articles from March 1998

Journal of European Studies archives from March 1998

Reflections d'outre-mer on French colonialism.
March 1, 1998... 'La France, plus qu'aucune nation, possede le genie de la colonisation... L'avenir de la France est dans ses colonies.' This passage is drawn from a remarkable work of propaganda by Victor Beauregard, L'Empire Colonial de la France, published in...

Les Temps modernes and the French war in Indochina.
March 1, 1998... A moi-meme, menant une bien petite barque sur l'ocean de la guerre, l'Indochine apparaissait alors comme un grand navire desempare que je ne pourrais secourir avant d'avoir longuement reuni les moyens du sauvetage. Le voyant s'eloigner dans la...

Camus, Sartre and the Algerian war. (writers Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre)
March 1, 1998... Between Camus and Sartre, the Algerian war is a fertile ground for all kinds of paradoxes. If, as Roland Dumas put it, the war was really 'Sartre's war',(1) nothing had, a priori, prepared the philosopher for his role as the conflict's leading...

French culture and the Algerian war: mobilizing icons.
March 1, 1998... Introduction The subject of this paper is the role played by French culture, and more specifically French cultural icons, as a focus for agitation against the Algerian war. By the term 'French cultural icons', I refer to a broad range of...

Questions of decolonization and post-colonialism in the ideology of the French extreme right.
March 1, 1998... Introduction The process of decolonization and its long-term consequences are central issues for extreme right-wing intellectuals grouped in, or ideologically close to, the Front National (FN).(1) The meanings which these writers ascribe to...

The Beurgeoisie: mediation or mirage? (Maghrebi minority)
March 1, 1998... Introduction The emergence of a second generation among the Maghrebi population in France was marked during the 1980s by the popularization of a new term, Beur(s). By the end of the decade, this neologism had spawned a range of derivatives....

French colonial and post-colonial hybridity: condition metisse.
March 1, 1998... One of the central issues which shapes and agitates contemporary France, as well as other European countries, is that of identity. Multiple discourses on French identity are crisscrossing France today and are channelled in two different domains -...

Orientalism: from unveiling to hyperveiling.
March 1, 1998... In the heterogeneous field of 'Orientalism', 'Europe's collective day dream' of the East,(1) a particularly prominent part has been played by the image of veiled women. The central importance of the veil in European representations of Oriental...

Representing illegal immigrants in France: from clandestins to l'affaire des sans-papiers de Saint-Bernard.
March 1, 1998... For at least five or six years now, the category of 'illegal' immigration has slowly become hegemonic in the sense that any discussion of 'immigration' in general includes at least some reflection on illegal immigrants or les clandestins. The...

Memory's bombes a retardement: Maurice Papon, crimes against humanity, and 17 October 1961.
March 1, 1998... Near the outset of Didier Daeninckx's 1984 detective novel, Meurtres pour memoire,(1) the young historian Bernard Thiraud sets out with his girlfriend to drive from Paris to Morocco, where the two plan to vacation together. Along the way, the...

Listening for the Text: On the Uses of the Past.
March 1, 1998... By Brian Stock. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996. Pp. x + 197. [pounds]15.50. Brian Stock is a medieval historian specializing in the intellectual history of the central Middle Ages. This book will interest a readership...

Poetic Will: Shakespeare and the Play of Language.
March 1, 1998... By David Willbern. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997. Pp. xx + 239. [pounds]35.00. Most of the essays that make up this book have appeared before, in collections dedicated to psychoanalytic approaches to literature or to...

Reason Diminished: Shakespeare and the Marvelous.
March 1, 1998... By Peter G. Platt, Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1997. Pp. xx + 272. [pounds]42.75 This is the book of the author's Oxford D.Phil. thesis, in which he explores, in a series of linked studies, some of the implications of the...

Constellation Caliban: Figurations of a Character.
March 1, 1998... Edited by Nadia Lie and Theo D'haen. Studies in Comparative Literature 10. Amsterdam and Atlanta, Georgia: Rodopi, 1997. Pp. iv + 356. In recent years Shakespeare's Tempest seems to have become a key text for our time. As an allegory of...

Spenser and the Discourses of Reformation England.
March 1, 1998... Richard Mallette. Lincoln and London: Nebraska University Press: 1997. Pp. xiii +289. $42.50. Distance lends perspective. For many readers, over many years, Spenser, like Milton, was God's Englishman, and scholars debated his place in a...

Stage-Wrights: Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, and the Making of Theatrical Value.
March 1, 1998... By Paul Yachnin. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997. Pp. xviii + 210. [pounds]34.50. Paul Yachnin's title, Stage-Wrights (a pejoratively workmanlike term borrowed from Jonson's disenchanted 'Ode to Himself'), deftly captures...

The Sin-Complex: A Critical Study of English Versions of the Grimms' Kinderund Hausmarchen in the Nineteenth Century.
March 1, 1998... By Martin Sutton. (Schriften der Bruder Grimm-Gesellschaft e.V. Neue Folge, 28.) Kassel: Bruder Grimm-Gesellschaft, 1996. Pp. 352. DM 98.-. This, the first published, book-length study in its field presents a new perspective for those...

'Europische Geschichte' als Historiographisches Problem.
March 1, 1998... Edited by Heinz Duchhardt and Andreas Kunz. Mainz: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 1997. Pp. vii + 204. The proceedings of a conference held at the Institute of European History in Mainz are made more topical by the importance of the question of...

Allemands, Juifs, et Tcheques a Prague 1890-1924: Actes du colloque international de Montpellier, decembre 1994. Vol. 1, Bibliotheque d'Etudes Germaniques et Centre-Europeennes.
March 1, 1998... Vol. I, Edited by Maurice Gode, Jacques Le Rider and Francoise Mayer. Montpellier: Universite Paul-Valery, 1996. Pp. 465. FFr.150.-. The purpose of the conference at which thirty-five American, Austrian, Czech, French and German specialists...

Hope and Glory. Britain 1900-1990.
March 1, 1998... By Peter Clarke. London: Allen Lane/The Penguin Press, 1996. Pp. x + 454. H/bk [pounds]25.00. Hope and Glory is graced by clear narratives of the course of party politics; judicious assessments of individuals, careful analysis of policies and...

Sick Heroes: French Society and Literature in the Romantic Age, 1750-1850.
March 1, 1998... By Allan H. Pasco. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 1997. Pp. xvii + 250. [pounds]12.99. This is a curious and highly ambitious book that promises an investigation into what is potentially a challenging and fascinating subject, the precise...

The Cambridge Companion to the French Novel. From 1800 to the Present.
March 1, 1998... Edited by Timothy Unwin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. 281. H/bk GBP7.50: P/bk [pounds]13.95. Barthes and his 'Reflexions sur un manuel' afford the starting point for this volume. Contributors have been asked to pay...

Bernanos: 'Journal d'un cure de campagne.'
March 1, 1998... By Malcolm Scott. London: Grant & Cutler Ltd. (Critical Guides to French Texts, 116), 1997. Pp. 82. [pounds]4.95. Bernanos's Journal d'un cure de campagne remains by any standards an extraordinary novel. As the terms 'Catholic novelist' and...

Occupation. The Ordeal of France, 1940-1944.
March 1, 1998... By Ian Ousby. London: John Murray, 1997. Pp. xviii + 348. [pounds]25.00. Since 1990 and the fiftieth anniversary of the beginning of the Occupation of France by the Nazis there has been an unending stream of publications, especially in France,...

Realms of Memory. The Construction of the French Past, Under the Direction of Pierre Nora. II: Traditions.
March 1, 1998... English language edition edited by Lawrence D. Kritzman. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. Pp. xii + 591. In 1930 Friedrich Sieberg famously celebrated in his Gott in Frankreich the nostalgic view of...

A Jew in the French Revolution: The Life of Zalkind Hourwitz.
March 1, 1998... By Frances Malino. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1996. Pp. xix + 281. [pounds]40.00. A journalist in the Journal encyclopedique, analysing at some length Zalkind Hourwitz's Apologie des Juifs, concluded that it, together with the similar work by...

Mourning Glory. The Will of the French Revolution.
March 1, 1998... By Marie-Helene Huet. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 1997. Pp. viii + 223. [pounds]16.50. This well-written account of the revolutionary imagination reflects a concern with ideas and language that is appropriate for its...

Writing the Orgy: Power and Parody in Sade.
March 1, 1998... By Lucienne Frappier-Mazur. Translated by Gillian C. Gill. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996. Pp. 245. This study offers an analysis of Sade's novelistic practice, especially as it is exemplified in the Histoire de Juliette....

La litterature francaise aujourd'hui. Essai sur la litterature francaise dans la seconde moitie du XXe siecle.
March 1, 1998... By Pierre Brunel. Paris: Vuibert, 1997. Pp. 222. FFr. 93.-. At a time when French literature has been dismissed by a number of commentators for failing to sustain what they consider to be the qualities of past masterpieces, Brunel's essay...

Deutschland. A Winter's Tale.
March 1, 1998... By Heinrich Heine. Edited with translation by T.J. Reed. London: Angel Books, 1997. Pp.185. [pounds]7.95. In Autumn 1843, Heine returned to Germany after an absence of almost 13 years. His visit of several weeks provided the basis for an...

Kurt Merz Schwitters.
March 1, 1998... By Gwendolen Webster. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1997. Pp. xviii + 443. [pounds]40.00. In Kurz Merz Schwitters, Gwendolen Webster offers the first book-length biographical study of the Expressionist artist and poet, Kurz Schwitters...

Franz Kafka.
March 1, 1998... By Ronald Speirs and Beatrice Sandberg. (Macmillan Modern Novelists.) Basingstoke and London: Macmillan, 1997. Pp. 161. [pounds]11.50. The incessant flow of highly specialized, detailed, and often lengthy partial views of Kafka's techniques,...

Abschied von der Zeit.
March 1, 1998... By Franz Jung. Edited by Lutz Schulenberg. (Vol. 9/2 of Franz Jung. Werke in Einzelausgaben) Hamburg: Edition Nautilus, 1997. Pp. 730. DM.78.-. This volume concludes the 12-volume edition of the work of Franz Jung that has been appearing since...

Delbruck's Modern Military History.
March 1, 1998... Edited and translated by Arden Bucholz. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 1997. Pp. xix + 244. [pounds]42.75. This valuable but overly-expensive volume offers an insight into military history and thinking. Hans Delbruck...

Denkmalsturz. Zur Konfliktgeschichte politischer Symbolik.
March 1, 1998... Edited by Winfried Speitkamp. Gottingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1997. Pp. 156. DM. 22.80. Anyone paying a return visit to Berlin in the 1990s is almost certain to require a new street map. The rising skyline of the Postdamer Platz and of the...

Italo Svevo. Samuel Spiers Schuler.
March 1, 1998... By Hans Michael Hensel and John Gatt-Rutter. Segnitz bei Wurzburg: Zeno's Verlag, 1996. Pp. 307. DM.68-. From 1874 to 1878 Ettore Schmitz (Italo Svevo) attended a private school for boys, the Brusselsche Institut, in the village of Segnitz....

Jewish-German Identity in the Orientalist Literature of Else Lasker-Schuller, Friedrich Wolf, and Franz Werfel.
March 1, 1998... By Donna K. Heizer. Columbia: Camden House, 1996. Pp. viii + 116. [pounds]36.00. Visitors to Dresden cannot fail to be struck by the famous Tabak Moschee (Tobacco Mosque), which dominates the approach to the city. Built in 1909 by a Jewish...

Constructing China: Kafka's Orientalist Discourse.
March 1, 1998... By Rolf J. Goebel. Columbia, SC: Camden House, 1997. Pp. 137. [pounds]45.00 Walter Benjamin once remarked that Kafka's aeuvre constituted 'the field of force between Torah and Tao'. According to Gustav Janouch, however, the 'hopeless...

Historical Dictionary of Hungary.
March 1, 1998... By Steven Bela Vardy. Lanham, MD & London: The Scarecrow Press, 1997. Pp. xx + 813. [pounds]71.25. Historical Dictionary of Hungary is a massive work comprising an extensive chronology, a historical introduction, 667 pages of text and a vast...

The Russian Intelligentsia.
March 1, 1998... By Andrei Sinyavsky. Translated by Lynn Visson. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. Pp. xiv + 98. [pounds]15.95. In this book, based on the Harriman lectures delivered in 1996, Sinyavsky offers a valedictory rebuke to the modern Russian...

Selected Poems, 1954-94.
March 1, 1998... By Gennady Aygi. Edited with translations by Peter France. Bilingual edition. London: Angel Books, 1997. Pp. 238 + index. [pounds]11.95. In a number of European countries, and increasingly in Russia too, Gennadii Aygi is considered to be a...

A History of Twentieth-Century Russia.
March 1, 1998... By Robert Service. Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Allen Lane. The Penguin Press, 1997. Pp. xxxiv + 654. [pounds]25.00 The organizing metaphor for Robert Service's hefty new history of twentieth-century Russia is the 'Soviet compound'. The...