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The French Writers’ War, 1940–1953 gisèle sapiro Translated by Vanessa Doriott Anderson and Dorrit Cohn
“There is no doubt that The French Writers’ War, 1940–1953, is an important contribution to French historical and sociological scholarship,
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and that it fully deserved the accolades it received, not only in France
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but in Germany and elsewhere in Europe, when it first appeared, as well as among French historians in the United States. It is the fruit of exhaustive research and a highly original work.”—SUSAN RUBIN SULEIMAN , author of Crises of Memory and the Second World War
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The French Writers’ War, 1940–1953, is a remarkably thorough account
ence of the religious Right and to discuss social transformation, political
of French writers and literary institutions from the beginning of the
change, and the evolution of religious traditions.
German Occupation through France’s passage of amnesty laws in the early 1950s. To understand how the Occupation affected French literary
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production as a whole, Gisèle Sapiro uses Pierre Bourdieu’s notion of
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the “literary field.” Sapiro surveyed the career trajectories and literary
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and political positions of 185 writers. She found that writers’ stances in relation to the Vichy regime are best explained in terms of institutional and structural factors, rather than ideology. Examining four major
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French literary institutions, from the conservative French Academy to the Comité national des écrivains, a group formed in 1941 to resist the Occupation, she chronicles the institutions’ histories before turning to
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the ways that they influenced writers’ political positions. Sapiro shows
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how significant institutions and individuals within France’s literary field exacerbated their loss of independence or found ways of resisting
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during the war and Occupation, as well as how they were perceived after Liberation.
Gisèle Sapiro is a sociologist in Paris, where she is Director of Research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. Vanessa Doriott Anderson is Assistant Professor of French at Wartburg College in Waverly, Iowa. Dorrit Cohn (1924–2012) is the author of The Distinction of Fiction and Transparent Minds: Narrative Modes for Presenting Consciousness in Fiction. POLITICS, HISTORY, AND CULTURE A Series Edited by Julia Adams and George Steinmetz
The Economist as Public Intellectual examines the power of individual economists to intervene in public affairs and argues that economists’ public interventions have had profound consequences for both the structure and the content of the public sphere. Focusing on the encounters between economists and their publics in the United Kingdom and the United States, the essays in this volume demonstrate how publicity served different purposes in the evolving configurations of academe, business, government, and media during the twentieth century. The economists discussed include Gary Becker, Milton Friedman, John Kenneth Galbraith, and John Maynard Keynes. This volume concludes with a timely examination of economists’ reaction to the current financial downturn. Subscribers to History of Political Economy will receive a copy of The Economist as Public Intellectual.
Contributors Roger E. Backhouse, Bradley W. Bateman, Peter Boettke, Angus Burgin, Robert W. Dimand, Gil Eyal, Jean-Baptiste Fleury, Chris Godden, Craufurd Goodwin, Susan Howson, Moran Levy, Alain Marciano, Tiago Mata, Rob Roy McGregor, Steven G. Medema, Philip Mirowski, Edward Nik-Khah, Liya Palagashvili, Warren Young
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