Theater, War, and Memory in Crisis: Vichy, Algeria, the Aftermath

by John Ireland

Book Overview

John Ireland's Theater, War, and Memory in Crisis explores how French dramatists have engaged with two traumatic events that continue to haunt France: the German occupation and Vichy government from 1940-1944, and the Algerian War from 1954-1962. Throughout the twentieth century, French cultural anthropologists, classicists, and social scientists repeatedly revisited links between archaic religious ritual, the practice of sacrifice, and Greek...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472057286
• ISBN13: 9780472057283
• Release Date: March 2025
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 376 Pages