Richard J Golsan

Biographic Data

ID607309
NAMERichard J Golsan
GIVEN NAMESRichard J
FAMILY NAMEGolsan
SIGNATUREGOLSAN R J
AFFILIATIONSTexas A&M University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS38
TOTAL CITATIONS2
AUTHOR COUNT38
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1983
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Propaganda and Persecution: The French Resistance and the “Jewish Question.”

    Richard J GolsanARTICLEThe Journal of Modern History2025

  • French memory and the wages of guilt

    Open AccessRichard J GolsanARTICLEEuropean Journal of Political…2011

  • Of Jean Giono and Collaboration: A Response to Meaghan Emery

    Richard J GolsanARTICLEFrench Historical Studies2010

    Even though Jean Giono's admirers, including his biographer Pierre Citron, insist that Giono was neither a collaborator nor favorably disposed to Vichy's National Revolution and that he was in fact a resister, his activities and wartime writings confirm that he was not only sympathetic to the occupant's presence but also ideologically complicit with the principles of the National Revolution. Giono's Journal de l'Occupation as well as his prewar p…

  • The American Reception of Max Aue

    Richard J GolsanARTICLESubStance2010

    The American Reception of Max Aue Richard J. Golsan (bio) Littell, Jonathan. The Kindly Ones, trans. Charlotte Mandell. New York: HarperCollins, 2009. In 2006, American-born novelist Jonathan Littell, writing in French, published with Gallimard a 900-page historical novel, Les Bienveillantes, chronicling in graphic and often shocking detail the wartime experiences and sex life of a retired and unrepentant SS officer, the fictional Maximilian Aue.…

  • Suite FranÇaise and Les Bienveillantes , two Literary “Exceptions”: A Conversation

    Richard J Golsan, Susan Rubin SuleimanARTICLEContemporary French and…2008Cited by: 1

  • French Writers and the Politics of Complicity

    Richard J Golsan, Richard GolsanBOOKFrench writers and the politics…2005

  • Preliminary reflections on anti-antiaméricanisme: André Glucksmann et compagnie

    Richard J GolsanARTICLEContemporary French and…2004

    (2004). Preliminary reflections on anti-antiamericanisme: Andre Glucksmann et compagnie. Contemporary French and Francophone Studies: Vol. 8, No. 4, pp. 391-404

  • Tzvetan Todorov, the ‘Responsible Intellectual’, and the new world disorder

    Richard J GolsanARTICLEModern & Contemporary France2004

    This article assesses Tzvetan Todorov's intellectual evolution from structuralist literary critic to ‘responsible intellectual’. It contrasts his notion of the responsibility of the intellectual with traditional definitions of commitment, and analyses why for Todorov figures such as Camus, Aron, and Tillion are exemplary, whereas Communist intellectuals are not. The article examines Todorov's positions vis‐à‐vis current crises and controversies, …

  • Questions for Tzvetan Todorov

    Richard J GolsanARTICLEModern & Contemporary France2004

  • "Revisiting "A New History of French Literature

    Denis Hollier, Richard J Golsan et al.ARTICLESubStance2003

  • The Le Pen Moment

    Richard J GolsanARTICLESubStance2003

    On July 14, 2002, a 25-year-old neo-Nazi named Maxime Brunerie drove a rented car from suburban Courcouronnes to Paris for the Bastille Day parade along the Champs Elysees. He carried a guitar case containing a .22 rifle he had recently purchased. The day before, on the British neo-Nazi website Combat 18 (18 signifying AH, the first and eighth letters of the alphabet, the initials of Adolph Hitler), Brunerie had posted a message: Watch television…

  • Michael Mewshaw

    Open AccessRichard J GolsanARTICLESouth Central Review2002

  • Vichy's Afterlife: History and Counterhistory in Postwar France

    Roel Vande Winkel, Brett Bowles et al.ARTICLESubStance2002

  • Vichy's Afterlife: History and Counterhistory in Postwar France

    William Cloonan, Richard J GolsanARTICLESouth Atlantic Review2001

    One of the distinctive features of the Syndrome - the persistence of the memory of the Vichy regime in French political and cultural life - is that it has been extremely difficult for an authoritative historical discourse to impose itself. Why does Vichy, and all that the name entails, fascinate and even obsess the French, inflecting not only discussions of the past but of the present as well? In Afterlife, Richard J. Golsan explores the complexi…

  • Papon: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

    Richard J GolsanARTICLESubStance2000

    When the trial for crimes against humanity of former Vichy functionary and Gaullist minister Maurice Papon ended on 2 April 1998 in Bordeaux after nearly six months of deliberations, by all accounts most of the French breathed a sigh of relief. Scheduled to last only two to three months and, in the eyes of many, to offer an exemplary and final judgment on Vichy complicity in the Final Solution, the Papon trial quickly overflowed the historical, j…

  • The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach

    Richard J Golsan, Alice KaplanARTICLESubStance2000

  • Introduction: Intellectuals in the 1990s

    Christopher Flood, Richard J Golsan et al.ARTICLEContemporary French Civilization2000

  • "Old Wine in New Bottles? Kosovo and the "Debray Affair

    Richard J GolsanARTICLEContemporary French Civilization2000

    Cet article retrace les prises de position des intellectuels francais a propos des evenements passes en ex-Yougoslavie pendant les annees 90. Autour des ecrits de R. Debray, l'A. analyse la scene intellectuelle francaise plus centree sur elle-meme que sur son role d'opposition a la pensee unique

  • More on History and Morality

    Open AccessTzvetan Todorov, Richard J GolsanARTICLESouth Central Review1999

    It goes without saying that I took the greatest interest in reading the essays devoted to my work in the South Central Review,' and I am very grateful to the editors for having organized this forum. I will abstain from commenting here on those articles, the majority, which are favorable to the positions I take. Happily (not necessarily for me, but in the interest of opening the debate), not all the essays are favorable; Larry J. Reynolds, in part…

  • Todorov's "New" Humanism: "France's "Imperfect Garden

    Open AccessRichard J GolsanARTICLESouth Central Review1998

    work in English dealing with topics such as life in the concentration camps and the Franco-French struggle in Occupied France during World War II, the subjects of Todorov's latest books published in France may come as something of a surprise. The first of these, a brief monograph published in 1997 entitled Benjamin Constant: La passion ddmocratique (Benjamin Constant: The Passion for Democracy)' examines the political philosophy and humanistic th…

  • Literature and the Right in Postwar France: The Story of the 'Hussards

    Richard J Golsan, Nicholas HewittARTICLESubStance1998

    It has long been assumed that France was dominated by the political left wing and by Existentialism throughout the 1940s and 1950s. This is the first book to re-evaluate the impact of the vigorous and unrepentant right-wing cultural and literary movement during the postwar period.In this revealing study, the author concentrates on three neglected but significant writers who constitute the group known as the 'Hussards': Roger Nimier, Antoine Blond…

  • Myths of Apocalypse and Renewal: Jean Giono and "Literary" Collaboration

    Richard J GolsanARTICLESubStance1998

    the political and cultural legacy of Vichy, a number of studies published in the eighties and nineties have examined the collaborationist views and activities of writers and intellectuals who voiced support for Hitler's New Europe or espoused the cause of Vichy's National Revolution.' Focusing primarily on major figures including Brasillach, C1line, Drieu la Rochelle, Montherlant, Morand, and Colette, these works also deal with minor luminaries w…

  • Claude Berri's Uranus: The Pitfalls of Representing Les Années Noires in the Nineties

    Richard J GolsanARTICLEContemporary French Civilization1998

  • Vichy un passe qui ne passe pas

    Richard J Golsan, Eric Conan et al.ARTICLESubStance1997

  • Epic and Epoch: Essays on the Interpretation and History of a Genre

    David Fredrick, Richard J Golsan et al.ARTICLESouth Atlantic Review1996