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The Past in the Present: Memory and Commemoration in France Today (slides) |
| Key Reading: Pierre Nora, "Between Memory and History"--this is the introduction to the eight volume series he edited, Les Lieux de memoire [Sites of Memory]; it is available as a separate essay in Representations (spring 1989), 7-25. [JSTOR] See, too, the review by Jay Winter. Further Reading: Laura Lee Downs and Stéphane Gerson, eds., Why France? (2007). Peter Fritzsche, "The Case of Modern Memory," [review article], Journal of Modern History, 73:1 (2001). [JSTOR] Robert Gildea, The Past in French History (1994). Richard Golsan, The Papon Affair: Memory and Justice on Trial (2000). Maurice Halbwachs, On Collective Memory (1925; 1992). Eric Hobsbawm & Terence Ranger, eds., The Invention of Tradition (1982). Patrick Hutton, History as an Art of Memory (1993). Alice Kaplan, French Lessons: A Memoir (1993). Jacques Revel and Lynn Hunt, eds., Histories: French Constructions of the Past (1995). Henry Rousso, The Haunting Past: History, Memory, and Justice in Contemporary France (2001). Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History (1995). |
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