Melancholy politics : loss, mourning, and memory in late modern France /
"A study of the cultural politics of loss and mourning in France from 1978 to the present. Focuses on national identity, secularism, Jacobin republicanism, and political-cultural exceptionalism"--Provided by publisher.
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University Park, Pa. :
Pennsylvania State University Press,
[2011]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Loss, mourning, memory
- Specters of the sixties
- French postmodern
- Le Débat, year one : the generation of 1980
- The return of the prophet : Bourdieu, Zola, and the Dreyfusist legacy
- Desperately seeking Marianne : the uses of the republic
- Memory wars
- Old wine, new skins : race, laïcité, Frenchness
- Conclusion.