Andrew Sobanet
Biographic Data
| ID | 3684620 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew Sobanet |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Sobanet |
| SIGNATURE | SOBANET A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgetown University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Delteil’s Les Écœurés: Gilets Jaunes and the Limits of the Noir
This article is an interdisciplinary study of Gérard Delteil’s Les Écœurés, a 2019 novel that was marketed as a “le premier polar en Gilet Jaune.” In this essay, we explore the generic tensions that arise when murder mystery intersects with socioeconomic criticism in our age of advanced capitalism. We argue that Les Écœurés functions differently when read through a sociological prism than it does as a noir or polar. We demonstrate that analysis o…
Introduction: Partisanship, radicalization, and polarization in the interwar period
A Big-Data Approach to Contemporary French Politics
Mixing the methods of machine learning and those of French cultural studies, this article explores recent trends in French politics. We analyze a large data set from Twitter (over a hundred and fifty million tweets) in order to reveal notable currents in discourse around the Gilets Jaunes and the French presidency (with particular focus on Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen). This article delineates our methods and places this data analysis in a b…
Molotov-Ribbentrop-Aragon: The Nazi-Soviet pact, French newspapers, and the French Communist Part
This article explores how Louis Aragon became the symbol for the reaction of the French Communist Party (PCF) to the August 1939 pact of non-aggression between the USSR and Nazi Germany. The party’s support for the pact, as this article contends, serves as a case study in the tension between patriotism and internationalism within the PCF. Through a comprehensive overview of both major and partisan French newspapers from the period, this article s…
Generation Stalin: French Writers, the Fatherland, and the Cult of Personality
Olivier Rolin's Le Météorologue: Vicarious Witnessing and the Gulag
Olivier Rolin’s Le Météorologue: Vicarious Witnessing and the Gulag This article is a study of Olivier Rolin’s Le météorologue (2014), a documentary work that advocates for a recalibrated understanding of twentieth-century totalitarian oppression. Rolin’s text traces his investigation into the arrest, detainment, execution, and legacy of Alexeï Vangengheim, Stalin’s chief meteorologist who was falsely accused of sabotage and espionage in 1934. Th…
Elle s'appelait Sarah and the Limits of Postwar Witnessing and Memory
This study offers an analysis of Gilles Paquet-Brenner's Elle s'appelait Sarah (2010) as historical and testimonial fiction. It investigates narrative strategies and storytelling choices used to represent France during the Nazi Occupation and to promote the importance of remembering and bearing witness to that period in the twenty-first century. This investigation will show that while the film's representation of 1940s France is admirable in its …
Henri Barbusse, official biographer of Joseph Stalin
This article represents the first sustained critical analysis of Henri Barbusse’s Staline (1935), the first official biography of Joseph Stalin. The author traces Barbusse’s evolution from a Goncourt-winning pacifist writer in the immediate post-World War I years to his position as a Stalinist propagandist at the end of his life. This article reads Staline as propaganda in the service of Stalin’s personality cult, examining its overarching themes…
French Writers and the Politics of Complicity
Reviewed by: French Writers and the Politics of Complicity Andrew Sobanet Golsan, Richard J. French Writers and the Politics of Complicity. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. Pp. 216. In a thought-provoking and well-researched new book, Richard Golsan explores the politics of complicity in two heterogeneous groups of French writers. Focusing on the 1940s and the 1990s, Golsan analyzes problematic stances taken by select intellec…
Introduction: France, 1940-1944: The Ambiguous Legacy
Revisiting the Sorrow and the Pity: An Interview With Marcel Ophuls
Wartime Collaboration and Postwar Judgment in Lacombe Lucien and Le Chagrin Et La Pitié
Silence in the Court and Testimony Behind Bars Juvenile Defendants and the French Judicial System
This article addresses salient questions in literature and anthropology centring on the politics of writing, readership and representation in a context marked by highly charged public debates on the nature, causes and perpetrators of youth violence. It critically examines and juxtaposes two sets of texts, one set produced by incarcerated youths in a writing workshop at a juvenile detention facility in Bordeaux, and the other taken from court tran…
From Wedding Chapels to German Castles: Politicized Interview Sites in Le Chagrin Et La Pitié
From Wedding Chapels to German Castles: Politicized Interview Sites in Le Chagrin Et La Pitié
Elle s'appelait Sarah and the Limits of Postwar Witnessing and Memory
This study offers an analysis of Gilles Paquet-Brenner's Elle s'appelait Sarah (2010) as historical and testimonial fiction. It investigates narrative strategies and storytelling choices used to represent France during the Nazi Occupation and to promote the importance of remembering and bearing witness to that period in the twenty-first century. This investigation will show that while the film's representation of 1940s France is admirable in its …
Revisiting the Sorrow and the Pity: An Interview With Marcel Ophuls
Wartime Collaboration and Postwar Judgment in Lacombe Lucien and Le Chagrin Et La Pitié
Silence in the Court and Testimony Behind Bars Juvenile Defendants and the French Judicial System
This article addresses salient questions in literature and anthropology centring on the politics of writing, readership and representation in a context marked by highly charged public debates on the nature, causes and perpetrators of youth violence. It critically examines and juxtaposes two sets of texts, one set produced by incarcerated youths in a writing workshop at a juvenile detention facility in Bordeaux, and the other taken from court tran…
From Wedding Chapels to German Castles: Politicized Interview Sites in Le Chagrin Et La Pitié
Introduction: France, 1940-1944: The Ambiguous Legacy
Revisiting the Sorrow and the Pity: An Interview With Marcel Ophuls
Wartime Collaboration and Postwar Judgment in Lacombe Lucien and Le Chagrin Et La Pitié
French Writers and the Politics of Complicity
Reviewed by: French Writers and the Politics of Complicity Andrew Sobanet Golsan, Richard J. French Writers and the Politics of Complicity. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. Pp. 216. In a thought-provoking and well-researched new book, Richard Golsan explores the politics of complicity in two heterogeneous groups of French writers. Focusing on the 1940s and the 1990s, Golsan analyzes problematic stances taken by select intellec…
Elle s'appelait Sarah and the Limits of Postwar Witnessing and Memory
This study offers an analysis of Gilles Paquet-Brenner's Elle s'appelait Sarah (2010) as historical and testimonial fiction. It investigates narrative strategies and storytelling choices used to represent France during the Nazi Occupation and to promote the importance of remembering and bearing witness to that period in the twenty-first century. This investigation will show that while the film's representation of 1940s France is admirable in its …
Henri Barbusse, official biographer of Joseph Stalin
This article represents the first sustained critical analysis of Henri Barbusse’s Staline (1935), the first official biography of Joseph Stalin. The author traces Barbusse’s evolution from a Goncourt-winning pacifist writer in the immediate post-World War I years to his position as a Stalinist propagandist at the end of his life. This article reads Staline as propaganda in the service of Stalin’s personality cult, examining its overarching themes…
Olivier Rolin's Le Météorologue: Vicarious Witnessing and the Gulag
Olivier Rolin’s Le Météorologue: Vicarious Witnessing and the Gulag This article is a study of Olivier Rolin’s Le météorologue (2014), a documentary work that advocates for a recalibrated understanding of twentieth-century totalitarian oppression. Rolin’s text traces his investigation into the arrest, detainment, execution, and legacy of Alexeï Vangengheim, Stalin’s chief meteorologist who was falsely accused of sabotage and espionage in 1934. Th…
Generation Stalin: French Writers, the Fatherland, and the Cult of Personality
Introduction: Partisanship, radicalization, and polarization in the interwar period
A Big-Data Approach to Contemporary French Politics
Mixing the methods of machine learning and those of French cultural studies, this article explores recent trends in French politics. We analyze a large data set from Twitter (over a hundred and fifty million tweets) in order to reveal notable currents in discourse around the Gilets Jaunes and the French presidency (with particular focus on Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen). This article delineates our methods and places this data analysis in a b…
Molotov-Ribbentrop-Aragon: The Nazi-Soviet pact, French newspapers, and the French Communist Part
This article explores how Louis Aragon became the symbol for the reaction of the French Communist Party (PCF) to the August 1939 pact of non-aggression between the USSR and Nazi Germany. The party’s support for the pact, as this article contends, serves as a case study in the tension between patriotism and internationalism within the PCF. Through a comprehensive overview of both major and partisan French newspapers from the period, this article s…
Delteil’s Les Écœurés: Gilets Jaunes and the Limits of the Noir
This article is an interdisciplinary study of Gérard Delteil’s Les Écœurés, a 2019 novel that was marketed as a “le premier polar en Gilet Jaune.” In this essay, we explore the generic tensions that arise when murder mystery intersects with socioeconomic criticism in our age of advanced capitalism. We argue that Les Écœurés functions differently when read through a sociological prism than it does as a noir or polar. We demonstrate that analysis o…
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