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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mathy, Jean-Philippe
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: 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.