
Yale French Studies, Number 102
Belgian Memories
Catherine Labio(Editor)
Yale University Press
Will be published approx. on 18. March 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-0-300-09772-6 (ISBN)
Description
Part 1
Pierre Mertens, Perasma: A Novel (excerpt)
Antoon Van den Braembussche, The Silenced Past: Trauma and Taboo in Belgian Memories
Luc de Heusch, Ceci n'est pas la Belgique
Piet Van de Craen, What, if Anything, Is a Belgian?
Jacques Dubois, Wallonia: The Will to Remember
Part 2
Marc Quaghebeur, The Sixteenth Century: A Decisive Myth
Sophie de Schaepdrijver, Death Is Elsewhere: The Shifting Locus of Tragedy in Belgian Great War Literature
Antoine Tshitungu Kongolo, Colonial Memories in Belgian and Congolese Literature
Part 3
Serge Tisseron, Family Secrets and Social Memory in Les Aventures de Tintin
Philip Mosley, Anxiety, Memory, and Place in Belgian Cinema
Francoise Aubry, Victor Horta: Vicissitudes of a Work
Alexander Murphy, Landscapes for Whom? The Twentieth-Century Remaking of Brussels
Pierre Mertens, Perasma: A Novel (excerpt)
Antoon Van den Braembussche, The Silenced Past: Trauma and Taboo in Belgian Memories
Luc de Heusch, Ceci n'est pas la Belgique
Piet Van de Craen, What, if Anything, Is a Belgian?
Jacques Dubois, Wallonia: The Will to Remember
Part 2
Marc Quaghebeur, The Sixteenth Century: A Decisive Myth
Sophie de Schaepdrijver, Death Is Elsewhere: The Shifting Locus of Tragedy in Belgian Great War Literature
Antoine Tshitungu Kongolo, Colonial Memories in Belgian and Congolese Literature
Part 3
Serge Tisseron, Family Secrets and Social Memory in Les Aventures de Tintin
Philip Mosley, Anxiety, Memory, and Place in Belgian Cinema
Francoise Aubry, Victor Horta: Vicissitudes of a Work
Alexander Murphy, Landscapes for Whom? The Twentieth-Century Remaking of Brussels
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
325 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-300-09772-6 (9780300097726)
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Content
Part 1: "Perasma: A Novel" (excerpt), Pierre Mertens; the silenced past - trauma and taboo in Belgian memories, Antoon Van den Braembussche; ceci n'est pas la Belgique, Luc de Heusch; what, if anything, is a Belgian? Piet Van de Craen; Wallonia - the will to remember, Jacques Dubois. Part 2: the 16th century - a decisive myth, Marc Quaghebeur; death is elsewhere - the shifting locus of tragedy in Belgian Great War literature, Sophie de Schaepdrijver; colonial memories in Belgian and Congolese literature, Antoine Tshitungu Kongolo. Part 3: family secrets and social memory in "Les Aventures de Tintin", Serge Tisseron; anxiety, memory, and place in Belgian cinema, Philip Mosley; Victor Horta - vicissitudes of a work, Francoise Aubry; landscapes for whom? The 20th-century remaking of Brussels, Alexander Murphy.