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Vichy's Afterlife: History and Counterhistory in Postwar France

Vichy's Afterlife: History and Counterhistory in Postwar France

Golsan, Richard J.

Paperback

French HistoryHistoriographyWorld War II

ISBN10: 0803270941
ISBN13: 9780803270947
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: Nov 1 2000
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.54 Width: 5.54 Depth: 8.52
Language: English
One of the distinctive features of the Vichy Syndrome--the persistence of the memory of the Vichy regime in French political and cultural life--is that it has been extremely difficult for an authoritative historical discourse to impose itself. Why does Vichy, and all that the name entails, fascinate and even obsess the French, inflecting not only discussions of the past but of the present as well?

In Vichy's Afterlife, Richard J. Golsan explores the complexities of some of the most provocative episodes of Vichy's curious persistence in France's national consciousness. He argues that each of these episodes, events, and scandals constitutes a crossroads where history and counterhistory--different or competing versions of the past--encounter one another, often with explosive and even destructive consequences.

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