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- Title
L'IMAGERIE DE L'IDENTITÉ : LE COUPLE FRANCE-ALLEMAGNE.
- Authors
LIPIANSKY, Edmond Marc
- Abstract
In this article, which was first published in 1979 in Ethnopsychologie, the author investigates the literature of essays which were devoted to "national characters" in France and in Germany during the first part of the 20th century, in order to analyze the method of construction of representations of national identities. At that time, the representation of the national identity of France built itself in a movement of opposition to the national identity of Germany, each of the two nations being prone to endorse even the negative identity which she received from the other. The article highlights the role played by some writers and intellectuals in the shaping and the promotion of this double representation, and the social function of these constructions, which appear as an expression of the functional position of the elites in their respective societies, and of their relation with the other classes.
- Subjects
ESSAYS; LITERARY characters; GROUP identity in literature; FRENCH national character; GERMAN national character; GROUP identity
- Publication
Cahiers de Sociologie Economique et Culturelle, 2011, Issue 52, p37
- ISSN
0761-9871
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3406/casec.2011.1186