Commemorating Trauma: The Paris Commune And Its Cultural Aftermath Hardcover

Peter Starr

9780823226030

English

Fordham University Press

5 May 2006

240

Peter Starr is Professor of French and Comparative Literature and College Dean of Undergraduate Programs at the University of Southern California. He is the author of Logics of Failed Revolt: French Theory after May '68.

A solid, well-researched, well-argued book that sits masterfully at an intersection of French history, politics, literature, and culture. -- -Lawrence Schehr * University of Illinois, Champaign/Urbana * Indispensable reading for anyone working on the Commune and on the second half of the nineteenth century in France. -- -David Bell * Duke University * Commemorating Trauma is a detailed studiy whose main contribution is to document the elusive nuances and neroses of traumatic collective memories . . . * -American Journal of Sociology *