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Melancholy politics : loss, mourning, and memory in late modern France
- Title
- Melancholy politics : loss, mourning, and memory in late modern France / Jean-Philippe Mathy.
- Author
- Mathy, Jean-Philippe.
- Publication
- University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2011.
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Details
- Description
- 237 p.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "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.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 11-2114
- ISBN
- 9780271037837 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0271037830 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2010039065
- OCLC
- YBP 2010039065
- Author
- Mathy, Jean-Philippe.
- Title
- Melancholy politics : loss, mourning, and memory in late modern France / Jean-Philippe Mathy.
- Imprint
- University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2011.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 11-2114