The project of Liberation and the projection of national identity; France, literature and politics, 1944–1945

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Notes

1. Olivier Wieviorka « Guerre civile à la française? Le cas des années sombres (1940–1945). » Vingtième Siècle 85 (janvier-mars, 2005) 5–19.

2. Poetry was the privileged genre of the period and has been extensively examined by a number of scholars (notably Seghers, and more recently Landes). A majority of the novels published during the months of interest to this study, on the other hand, have to do with the experience of World War II and the relationship between the novelistic genre and the writing of history would merit an entirely separate study.

3. The pronoun “we” is constantly used as an all-encompassing term to refer to the French.

4. This point has already been very well elaborated (see Schwartz 88–105).

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Aparna Nayak-Guercio

With an introduction by Phil Watts