This book examines fiction and film narratives that show the active collaboration of the Vichy government with the Nazis in the deportation and murder of the Jews of France. It also explains how these fiction and film narratives affected the official and dominant historical narrative of the 1940-44 Occupation years. More than anything, what changed the dominant narrative of the Occupation years are documentaries and creative works which imaginatively selected and arranged the presentation of neglected and suppressed facts. By stressing how documentaries, novels, and imaginative films changed the dominant narrative of 1940-1944, the author is also arguing how cultural production transformed history.
Daniel R. Schwarz is the Frederic J. Whiton Professor of English Literature and Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow at Cornell University, where he has taught since 1968. He is a renowned teacher, scholar, and public intellectual. He is the author of nineteen books including
Reading Joyce’s Ulysses (St. Martin's Press, 1987),
Reconfiguring Modernism: Explorations in the Relationship Between Modern Art and Modern Literature (Palgrave Macmillan, 1997) and
Imagining the Holocaust (St. Martin's Griffin, 2000).
1) general readers interested in the Holocaust; 2) graduate and undergraduate courses in Holocaust studies and Jewish studies; 3) graduate and undergraduate courses in twentieth century European and specifically French history; 4) graduate and undergraduate courses in film studies; 5)graduate and undergraduate courses in narrative and cultural studies; 6) libraries