Politics and the Individual in France 1930-1950

by Jessica Wardhaugh

Overview

Focusing on France, and bringing together historians of politics, literature, philosophy, art, and film, this volume sheds light on the imagination and experience of the political individual in the age of the masses between 1930 and 1950.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367601348
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/30/2020
Pages:	184
Product dimensions:	6.88(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements ix

Notes on the Contributors x

List of Illustrations xii

Brief Chronology xiii

Introduction 1

Part I The Individual and History

1 In the Shadow of Danton: Theatre, Politics, and Leadership in Interwar France Jessica Wardhaugh 13

2 Emmanuel Mourner's Personalism: A Nonconformist Approach to the Renewal of French Political Life Jean-François Petit 29

3 Between the 'I' and the 'We': Jean Renoir's Films of the Popular Front Era Martin O'Shaughnessy 41

Part II Memory, Identity, and Responsibility

4 Wounded Identities: The Diaries of Three Jewish Lawyers in Occupied France Liora Israël 61

5 Two Trajectories in the Memory of the Resistance: The Testimonies of Agnès Humbert and Germaine Tillion Julien Blanc 77

6 A Duty to Obey: The Individual and the State in the Life of Maurice Papon Stephanie Hare 89

Part III Toeing The Party Line: Choices and Constraints

7 Une Compagne de Route: Édith Thomas, Agency, and the Constraints of Communist Engagement Angela Kershaw 107

8 The Political Trajectory of Dneu la Rochelle: Between Hesitation and In comprehension Jean-Baptiste Bruneau 121

9 A Dying Colonialism, a Dying Orientalism: Algeria 1952 Sarah Wilson 135

Conclusion 153

Selected Bibliography 161

Index 167