About this ebook
This book will also have an impact on writers, publishers and organizers of exhibitions, museums, memorial sites and monuments whose influence in the field of war and memory has been increasing steadily in recent years. The imminent celebrations and commemorations pertaining to the Great War, beginning in 2014, together with the imminence of the seventieth anniversary of the end of the Second World War in 2015, will provide additional stimuli to public attention in this area over the next few years.
About the author
Dominique Jeannerod lectures in French Studies in the School of Modern Languages at Queen’s University Belfast. His principal areas of interest are in the international circulation of popular fiction, in the theory of the literary field, and in crime fiction writing in Europe. He is a founding member of the War and Memory Research Group at Queen’s University, and leads the ICRH International Crime Fiction research Group. He has taught at Freiburg and at Strasbourg Universities, and at Trinity College and University College (Dublin), before taking up his present appointment at Queen’s. He is the author of San-Antonio et son double (2010).
Manuel Bragança is a Research Fellow in the Institute for Collaborative Research in the Humanities and a founding member of the War and Memory Research Group at Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland. He is the author of La Crise allemande du roman français (2012), and his research spans two main areas: French historiography and memories of the Second World War, and the links between ideology, fiction and emotions.
