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{"title":"Surviving the Second World War: resilience strategies within the French facially disfigured veterans’ association","authors":"Marjorie Gehrhardt","doi":"10.1080/09639489.2023.2195157","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09639489.2023.2195157","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Veterans’ organisations boomed in the wake of the First World War, many of their members joined together by a shared experience but also the desire to make this conflict the wars to end all war. Yet only two decades later, a new conflict started. This article examines how one of the best-known and wealthiest organisations, the Union des Blessés de la Face—Association des Gueules Cassées [Union of the Facially Wounded—‘Broken Mugs” Association] responded to the outbreak of another conflict. Drawing upon press articles and the bulletins and newsletters published by the Union, this article investigates the impact of the war on a group set up by and for mutilated WWI veterans. Having defended a pacifist agenda in the interwar years, with Pétain as its honorary president and faced with the merger of most veterans’ associations into a single Légion française des combattants in 1940, how did the Union adapt to try and survive the new war, the division of France, and the Libération? This study furthers our understanding of the history of veterans’ organisations and the history of the Second World War, and it provides insights into organisational resilience within the charitable sector in a historical perspective.","PeriodicalId":233954,"journal":{"name":"Modern & Contemporary France","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124021387","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"De l’individuel au collectif : la quête de l’identité nationale dans Le Dépaysement de Jean-Christophe Bailly","authors":"Dan Zhang","doi":"10.1080/09639489.2023.2191939","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09639489.2023.2191939","url":null,"abstract":"RÉSUMÉ Arpenter le territoire français pour sonder l’identité nationale. C’est ce que fait Jean-Christophe Bailly dans Le Dépaysement, un récit qui se caractérise par un décentrement du regard vers le proche et le local et dont l’idée prend naissance lors d’un séjour dépaysant à New York. A l’encontre d’une vision essentialiste de la nation, son enquête de terrain le mène pourtant vers la quête d’une identité nationale en creux, à cheval entre le passé et l’avenir. En nous appuyant sur la théorie de la mémoire élaborée par Henri Bergson, nous soutenons que le texte mise sur une individuation en lien étroit avec l’appropriation mémorielle du territoire tout en laissant croire à une conception polymorphe et mouvante de l’identité nationale. Avec la mémoire qui répète le passé ou complète utilement la perception présente, les points de repère discrets renforcent le sentiment d’appartenance territoriale, mais valorisent aussi une articulation entre l’individuel et le collectif et, ce faisant, contribuent à animer la communauté nationale.","PeriodicalId":233954,"journal":{"name":"Modern & Contemporary France","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127200314","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Made in France: societal structures and political work","authors":"R. Kuhn","doi":"10.1080/09639489.2023.2196612","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09639489.2023.2196612","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":233954,"journal":{"name":"Modern & Contemporary France","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114368101","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Existentialist Comics « Bande Dessinée » and the Art of Ethics","authors":"C. Laborde","doi":"10.1080/09639489.2023.2180495","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09639489.2023.2180495","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":233954,"journal":{"name":"Modern & Contemporary France","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124394218","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Soldiers of God in a secular world: Catholic theology and twentieth-century French politics","authors":"Jessica Wardhaugh","doi":"10.1080/09639489.2023.2166476","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09639489.2023.2166476","url":null,"abstract":"text, and academic and journalistic studies, mostly in German. One of the strengths of the book is its rare collection of striking images of the Armenian genocide and of the two museums. The book also distinguishes itself from others by exploring theological and anthropological perspectives on memory-building initiatives after genocides. The book is unique in offering a deep exploration of the meaning of genocide memorials and memory rituals from the standpoint of nationalism, religious and sectarian transmission, and literary and architectural culture. Aside from the central comparison of the Armenian genocide and the Shoah, the theoretical approach seems to be not as comparative or analytical as some other approaches in the field of genocide studies. Future works in this field might further develop Dr. Kirsch’s analysis of the emergence of Armenian and Jewish memory of twentieth-century genocide to address the nineteenth century and the period before 1942 in the Jewish case, and the political and military contexts that shaped the place of memorials to great tragedies and triumphs in national and global cultures. The apparatuses of Armenian genocide memory and Armenian cultural transmission were arguably made possible, for example, by decisions and actions by the Russian, British, US, and French empires during the First World War, then by the Soviets and their allies especially prior to and during World War II, and finally by Soviet and post-Soviet leaders in the 1980s and 90s. While Dr. Kirsch describes the Zionist origins of Holocaust memory institutions in Israel, the foreign (US and Soviet, mainly) contributions to Israel’s history are not analyzed. Arguably, the two major blocs of the Cold War shaped, alongside larger religious movements and national identities, the character and biases of our historical memory. Had the United States rather than the Soviet Union collapsed to end the Cold War, a different archipelago of museums would dot the earth, and a different outcome to the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 would have prevented the Halabja Museum and the Halabja Martyrs’ Cemetery from taking their present form (Eccarius-Kelly, 2020).","PeriodicalId":233954,"journal":{"name":"Modern & Contemporary France","volume":"142 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121331768","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Histoire, bande dessinée et positionnement éthique : présence et fonction narrative du personnage de Pétain dans La Balade nationale (2017) de Sylvain Venayre et Etienne Davodeau","authors":"Manuel Braganca","doi":"10.1080/09639489.2022.2128317","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09639489.2022.2128317","url":null,"abstract":"RÉSUMÉ L’historien Sylvain Venayre et le dessinateur Etienne Davodeau signaient en 2017 La Balade nationale, le premier volume de Histoire dessinée de la France, une nouvelle histoire de France en bande dessinée. Ce volume, sous-titré ‘Les Origines’, ne porte sur aucune période spécifique car il se voulait être une réflexion sur le récit national et une mise en garde contre l’instrumentalisation de l’histoire. Pour ce faire, les deux auteurs imaginaient une aventure loufoque dans laquelle six personnages historiques – Jeanne d’Arc, Molière, Alexandre Dumas père, Jules Michelet, Marie Curie et Philippe Pétain – traversent la France. Or, curieusement, tous ces personnages sont dessinés à l’exception de Pétain qui ne s’exprime que depuis son cercueil qu’il refuse de quitter. Ceci est à la fois curieux et paradoxal puisque son visage – du moins celui des années 1940 – est vraisemblablement le seul de ces six personnages que les lecteurs auraient pu reconnaître. Cet article se propose de réfléchir aux raisons qui ont pu pousser les deux auteurs à vouloir inclure Pétain dans cette aventure mais à le faire sans le représenter visuellement. Ce faisant, il s’interroge sur la place du dessin dans ce métarécit national et sur le positionnement éthique des deux auteurs.","PeriodicalId":233954,"journal":{"name":"Modern & Contemporary France","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122130845","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Chocolate and the French novel: modernity, language, nature","authors":"Manon Mathias","doi":"10.1080/09639489.2022.2134324","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09639489.2022.2134324","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article brings ecocritical and historical approaches together with literary analysis to provide the first in-depth analysis of chocolate in French novels. It argues that chocolate is a uniquely hybrid, indeterminate substance in both literal and figurative terms and it enables writers to ask questions about human nature and our status as civilized, textual beings. Examining examples from a range of writers—Stendhal, Huysmans, Verne and Nothomb—I show how chocolate highlights our paradoxical understanding of ourselves as both imbricated within nature through our material status and yet separated from it through our culture and especially through language and writing. Chocolate thus provides a fruitful tool for writers to think about textuality, modernity, and our relationship with nature.","PeriodicalId":233954,"journal":{"name":"Modern & Contemporary France","volume":"183 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122364074","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}