Political polarization in the interwar period
In: Contemporary French civilization, volume 45, no. 1
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In: Contemporary French civilization, volume 45, no. 1
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In: French cultural studies, Volume 24, Issue 4, p. 359-375
ISSN: 1740-2352
This article represents the first sustained critical analysis of Henri Barbusse's Staline (1935), the first official biography of Joseph Stalin. The author traces Barbusse's evolution from a Goncourt-winning pacifist writer in the immediate post-World War I years to his position as a Stalinist propagandist at the end of his life. This article reads Staline as propaganda in the service of Stalin's personality cult, examining its overarching themes, its narrative mechanics, its reception and its legacy. Staline ultimately presents a case study of the dangers of complicity with the extreme left in the interwar period.
In: Journal of war & culture studies: JWCS, Volume 6, Issue 2, p. 127-140
ISSN: 1752-6280
In: French cultural studies, Volume 16, Issue 1
ISSN: 0957-1558
In: Studies in modern and contemporary France 4
In: French cultural studies, Volume 16, Issue 1, p. 21-39
ISSN: 1740-2352
This article addresses salient questions in literature and anthropology centring on the politics of writing, readership and representation in a context marked by highly charged public debates on the nature, causes and perpetrators of youth violence. It critically examines and juxtaposes two sets of texts, one set produced by incarcerated youths in a writing workshop at a juvenile detention facility in Bordeaux, and the other taken from court transcripts at juvenile trials in the Paris Palace of Justice. The workshop texts, written under the guidance of novelist François Bon, allow rare access to youths' familial milieux and to their understanding of their own place in a cycle of marginality. The texts taken from court trials privilege the voices of prosecutors, judges and attorneys who speak for, about and over the voices of young defendants. The texts produced by juvenile inmates are confronted with and speak to the plight of the young defendants.