Identity Papers

<div> <p><i>Identity Papers</i> was first published in 1996. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.</p> <p>What does citizenship mean? What is the process of naturalization one goes through in becoming a citizen and what is its connection to assimilation? How do the issues of identity raised by this process manifest themselves in culture? These questions and the way they arise in contemporary France are the focus of this diverse collection.</p> <p>The essays in this volume range in subject from fiction and essay to architecture and film. Among the topics discussed are the 1937 Exposition Universelle; films dealing with Vichy France; François Truffaut's <i>Histoire d'Adèle H</i>.; the war of Algerian independence; and nation building under François Mitterrand.</p> <p>Contributors: Anne Donadey Elizabeth Ezra Richard J. Golsan Lynn A. Higgins T. Jefferson Kline Panivong Norindr Shanny Peer Rosemarie Scullion David H. Slavin Philip H. Solomon; Florianne Wild .</p> <p>Steven Ungar is professor of cinema and comparative literature at the University of Iowa and author of <i>Scandal and Aftereffect: Blanchot and France since 1930</i> (Minnesota 1995). Tom Conley is professor of French at Harvard University.</p> </div>