Afterword: Beyond Thresholds—Suggestions for Further Research and Teaching Resources

Representing Wars from 1860 to the Present: Fields of Action, Fields of Vision, edited by Claire Bowen and Catherine Hoffmann

“…Clément Sigalas explores the concept of war as spectacle in a bunch of French post-war novels dealing this time with a limited field of vision as defined by liminal elements such as windows and, especially, balconies. Beyond the concept of liminality being particularly productive for literary analysis (Dass 2013;Decker and Winchock 2017;Jacobson et al 2018), these spaces are analysed as privileged vantage points from which to observe an armed conflict which provoked deep clashes in French society at that time.…”