Andrew Sobanet is Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Georgetown University in Washington D.C. He is the author of 'Generation Stalin: French Writers, the Fatherland, and the Cult of Personality'. Kylie Sago is Assistant Professor of French at San Diego State University.

• Andrew Sobanet, IntroductionI. France in Perspective: The Hexagon, Francophonie, EuropePierre Nora, The MetamorphosisMaurice Samuels, Historicizing French Universalism: The Case of Jewish EmancipationFrançoise Lionnet, Universalisms and FrancophoniesJulia Kristeva, A European Culture ExistsII. Visions of the World Wars, or L’Histoire avec sa grande hachePeter Brooks, Death Drives: Freud and ProustSusan Rubin Suleiman, Foreigners and Strangers: Jews in French Society and Literature between the Two World WarsGerald Prince, Bernard Frank and Patrick Modiano: Jewish WritersBarbara Will, Beckett’s French ResistanceIII. Refractions and ReflectionsNelly Furman, Between Acceptance and Betrayal: Sarah Kofman’s Rue Ordener, rue LabatRoxana Verona, In the Shadow of the Iron Curtain: The Photo Album and the Francophone (Dis)connectionHélène Cixous, Osnabrück Station to JerusalemIV. French Literature, RevisionedR. Howard Bloch, Mallarmé MédiévalStephen G. Nichols, What’s in a Word?: Language, Philosophy and Satire in Troubadour PoetryPierre Saint-Amand, Rousseau’s Late Botany: Living to the EndAlbert Sonnenfeld, Mallarmé's Gardens of Culinary DelightsWarren Motte, The Book, Inside and OutV. The Subject in FocusGeorges Vigarello, Internal Senses and the History of the Western SubjectFrançois Noudelmann, The Author's Afterlife: What is a Posthumous Truth?J. Hillis Miller, What Happens When I ReadVI. Philosophical LensesSouleymane Bachir Diagne, ‘African Philosophy’: The History of an ExpressionFrançois Hartog, Making History or Preventing the World from Destroying ItselfEtienne Balibar, Philosophy and Contemporary Reality: Beyond the Event?Brian J. Reilly, Jacques Derrida’s Pedagogical Imperative for the SciencesVII. CodaPierre NoraJulia Kristeva

Andrew Sobanet is Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Georgetown University in Washington D.C. He is the author of 'Generation Stalin: French Writers, the Fatherland, and the Cult of Personality'. Kylie Sago is Assistant Professor of French at San Diego State University.

• Andrew Sobanet, IntroductionI. France in Perspective: The Hexagon, Francophonie, EuropePierre Nora, The MetamorphosisMaurice Samuels, Historicizing French Universalism: The Case of Jewish EmancipationFrançoise Lionnet, Universalisms and FrancophoniesJulia Kristeva, A European Culture ExistsII. Visions of the World Wars, or L’Histoire avec sa grande hachePeter Brooks, Death Drives: Freud and ProustSusan Rubin Suleiman, Foreigners and Strangers: Jews in French Society and Literature between the Two World WarsGerald Prince, Bernard Frank and Patrick Modiano: Jewish WritersBarbara Will, Beckett’s French ResistanceIII. Refractions and ReflectionsNelly Furman, Between Acceptance and Betrayal: Sarah Kofman’s Rue Ordener, rue LabatRoxana Verona, In the Shadow of the Iron Curtain: The Photo Album and the Francophone (Dis)connectionHélène Cixous, Osnabrück Station to JerusalemIV. French Literature, RevisionedR. Howard Bloch, Mallarmé MédiévalStephen G. Nichols, What’s in a Word?: Language, Philosophy and Satire in Troubadour PoetryPierre Saint-Amand, Rousseau’s Late Botany: Living to the EndAlbert Sonnenfeld, Mallarmé's Gardens of Culinary DelightsWarren Motte, The Book, Inside and OutV. The Subject in FocusGeorges Vigarello, Internal Senses and the History of the Western SubjectFrançois Noudelmann, The Author's Afterlife: What is a Posthumous Truth?J. Hillis Miller, What Happens When I ReadVI. Philosophical LensesSouleymane Bachir Diagne, ‘African Philosophy’: The History of an ExpressionFrançois Hartog, Making History or Preventing the World from Destroying ItselfEtienne Balibar, Philosophy and Contemporary Reality: Beyond the Event?Brian J. Reilly, Jacques Derrida’s Pedagogical Imperative for the SciencesVII. CodaPierre NoraJulia Kristeva