Feeling Memory

Remembering Wartime Childhoods in France

Lindsey Dodd

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English

Columbia University Press
31 October 2023

Historiography; European history; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; Second World War

Series: The Columbia Oral History Series

What did it feel like to be a child in France during World War II? Feeling Memory is an affective exploration of children's lives in wartime France and the ways they are remembered.

Lindsey Dodd draws on the recorded oral narratives of a hundred people to examine the variety of experiences children had during the war. She considers different aspects of remembering, underscoring the centrality of emotion to memory. This book covers a wide range of locations-the country and the city, Occupied France and the Free Zone-and situations-well-off and poor children, those separated from their families and those with them; it places Jewish children's experiences alongside non-Jewish children's. Against the backdrop of momentous events, readers encounter children playing, working, eating, thinking, doing, and feeling.

An investigation of the emotions of history, Feeling Memory argues for the transformative potential of affect theory and affective methodologies in oral history and the history of everyday life. This book makes major contributions to the history of France during World War II, understandings of children's lives in war, and the use of memory in historical and oral history analysis.

By: Lindsey Dodd
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9780231209199
ISBN 10: 0231209193
Series: The Columbia Oral History Series
Pages: 400
Publication Date: 31 October 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Lindsey Dodd is an independent historian and oral historian. Until 2023 she was reader in modern European history at the University of Huddersfield. She is the author of French Children Under the Allied Bombs, 1940–1945: An Oral History (2016) and coeditor of Vichy France and Everyday Life: Confronting the Challenges of Wartime (2018). She is also part of the editorial team for the journal Oral History.

Reviews for Feeling Memory: Remembering Wartime Childhoods in France

Feeling Memory provides a nuanced and sophisticated explication of how the emotional content of memory shapes the remembered past into the present. Dodd contends that all historians-not just oral historians-need to take affective forms of knowledge more seriously and to search for the traces of feelings in their sources and analyses. The memory stories that are at the heart of the book are truly engaging and often moving. They make the book come alive. -- Ellen R. Boucher, author of <i>Empire's Children: Child Emigration, Welfare, and the Decline of the British World, 1869-1967</i>