People's history in France: A branding ...
Type de document :
Article dans une revue scientifique: Article original
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Titre :
People's history in France: A branding strategy, or a new kind of social history?
Auteur(s) :
Titre de la revue :
Le Mouvement Social
Pagination :
I - XLIV
Date de publication :
2020-10
ISSN :
0027-2671
Mot(s)-clé(s) :
People's history
Popular history
Social history
French history
Popular history
Social history
French history
Discipline(s) HAL :
Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Histoire, Philosophie et Sociologie des sciences
Résumé :
While it took over two decades for Howard Zinn's People's History of the United States (Harper Collins, 1980) to be published in French as Une histoire populaire des États-Unis (Agone, 2002), the 2010s saw an increased ...
Lire la suite >While it took over two decades for Howard Zinn's People's History of the United States (Harper Collins, 1980) to be published in French as Une histoire populaire des États-Unis (Agone, 2002), the 2010s saw an increased number of other histoires populaires in France. Some of these are translations of books entitled A People's History of. . . , offering French readers people's histories of humanity, the sciences, or sport. However, over the past three or four years, French historiography has been enriched with many people's histories of its own, such as those of Nantes, football, or of course France, with the successive publications by Michelle Zancarini-Fournel and Gérard Noiriel in 2016 and 2018. This growing trend raises the following question: Are \u201Chistoires populaires\u201D just a trendy branding strategy? The commercial success of Howard Zinn's book and its many variants (such as comic books, documentaries, abridged versions, or versions for children) may have prompted publishers to attempt to copy this phenomenon, or at least to take advantage of the \u201Cbrand\u201D represented by the title. Or rather, might the reading of these books prompt us to identify the emergence of a new way of writing about society? That is, a product of renewed historiographic approaches whereby more classic formulations\u2014such as \u201Ca social history of . . .\u201D\u2014are set aside.Lire moins >
Lire la suite >While it took over two decades for Howard Zinn's People's History of the United States (Harper Collins, 1980) to be published in French as Une histoire populaire des États-Unis (Agone, 2002), the 2010s saw an increased number of other histoires populaires in France. Some of these are translations of books entitled A People's History of. . . , offering French readers people's histories of humanity, the sciences, or sport. However, over the past three or four years, French historiography has been enriched with many people's histories of its own, such as those of Nantes, football, or of course France, with the successive publications by Michelle Zancarini-Fournel and Gérard Noiriel in 2016 and 2018. This growing trend raises the following question: Are \u201Chistoires populaires\u201D just a trendy branding strategy? The commercial success of Howard Zinn's book and its many variants (such as comic books, documentaries, abridged versions, or versions for children) may have prompted publishers to attempt to copy this phenomenon, or at least to take advantage of the \u201Cbrand\u201D represented by the title. Or rather, might the reading of these books prompt us to identify the emergence of a new way of writing about society? That is, a product of renewed historiographic approaches whereby more classic formulations\u2014such as \u201Ca social history of . . .\u201D\u2014are set aside.Lire moins >
Langue :
Anglais
Audience :
Internationale
Vulgarisation :
Non
Établissement(s) :
CNRS
Université de Lille
Université de Lille
Date de dépôt :
2021-04-02T13:30:10Z