Resistance heroism and the end of empire : the life and times of Madeleine Riffaud / Keren Chiaroni.

"This book introduces an English-speaking public to the life of Madeleine Riffaud - one of the last living leaders of the French Resistance. It considers the nature of the rebel hero in France's founding historical narratives (revolution, insurrection, resistance) while asking what contrib...

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Autor principal: Chiaroni, Keren (Autor)
Format: Llibre
Idioma:English
Publicat:London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.
Col·lecció:Routledge studies in modern European history ; 40.
Matèries:
Taula de continguts:
  • Introduction: Portrait of a rebel
  • Dramatis personae
  • Defining features: Riffaud and the Résistance
  • Vietnam: a love story
  • Algeria and France: a crime passionnel
  • Poetry as a weapon of war
  • Edme Liron: the ancestral portrait
  • The portrait revisited
  • Rainer or Riffaud?