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dc.contributor.authorBowd, Gavin
dc.date.accessioned2016-07-19T16:30:05Z
dc.date.available2016-07-19T16:30:05Z
dc.date.issued2016-11-01
dc.identifier.citationBowd , G 2016 , ' (N)ostalgie ? Communism and French literature since 1989 ' , French Cultural Studies , vol. 27 , no. 4 , pp. 361-371 . https://doi.org/10.1177/0957155816660940en
dc.identifier.issn0957-1558
dc.identifier.otherPURE: 244399173
dc.identifier.otherPURE UUID: f4ddf362-b81d-4b64-93d6-ab73d7f12dab
dc.identifier.otherScopus: 84991096587
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0002-3748-0656/work/60427109
dc.identifier.otherWOS: 000385703500005
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/9173
dc.description.abstractIn recent years, the burgeoning field of research on ‘post-communist nostalgia’ has concentrated mainly on the former Eastern Bloc, with Ostalgie for the GDR of particular interest. Study of the memory of communism in western countries such as France has been marginal. However, communism has left a considerable trace on French culture and politics. This article examines the memory of communism in French literature published since 1989. The novels of Bernard Chambaz, Aurélie Filippetti and Michel Houellebecq express affection and even longing for the lost world of communism, while reflecting lucidly on the failure of ‘really existing socialism’ and marking a break with previous generations. To varying degrees, these writers evoke the crisis of a France decentred and disoriented by social liberalisation, globalisation and migratory flows. Beyond any reflective nostalgia for communism, there appears, between the lines, a nostalgia for a certain France.
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofFrench Cultural Studiesen
dc.rights© The Author 2016. This work is made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created, accepted version manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at: https://doi.org/10.1177/0957155816660940en
dc.subjectCommunismen
dc.subjectPost-communismen
dc.subjectNostalgiaen
dc.subjectGeneration literatureen
dc.subjectP Language and Literatureen
dc.subjectPB Modern European Languagesen
dc.subject.lccPen
dc.subject.lccPBen
dc.title(N)ostalgie? Communism and French literature since 1989en
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.description.versionPostprinten
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Frenchen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1177/0957155816660940
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.identifier.urlhttps://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/journal/french-cultural-studiesen


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