The Changing 'Vichy Syndrome': Sites of Holocaust and Algerian Traumas in Official French Memory
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- February 26, 2019
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Howell, Mary
- Affiliation: College of Arts and Sciences, Department of History
- Abstract
- Memory as a realm for historical study is a relatively recent development in modern scholarship, and much of the research in this field relies heavily on historiography, and for the study of memory in France this includes historiography surrounding the Holocaust and World War II. For the purpose of this thesis, selected works of Pierre Nora and Henry Rousso form the historiographical foundation for analysis of recent historical traumas in France. Specifically Rousso’s theory of a “Vichy Syndrome” supplemented by Nora’s concept of lieux de mémoire—“sites” of memory— have shaped my research and the arguments herein relate back to these theories. Using this framework, I attempt to situate my findings within the larger study of memory and the complexities of “writing trauma.” I inevitably had to make selections for which components of the Vichy Syndrome to address, both for clarity’s sake and because the French memory of modern conflicts and traumas extends into more issues than I can discuss in a single thesis.
- Date of publication
- spring 2014
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- Funding: Michael L. and Matthew L. Boyatt Award, Burch Fellowship
- Advisor
- Kramer, Lloyd
- Degree
- Bachelor of Arts
- Honors level
- Honors
- Degree granting institution
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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- 104
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