Yale French Studies, Number 102

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.