After Arizona: Military Musicians in the Second World War

Rosemary Peters is Assistant Professor of French at Louisiana State University, where she also serves as a member of the Program on Comparative Literature. Her principal areas of research are the nineteenth-century French novel, music, urban culture, liturgy, and film. She has recently completed a book manuscript, Criminal Fictions: Theft and the Author in Nineteenth-Century France. Peters has published articles in Dalhousie French Studies, Excavatio, Textual Practice, and other journals, on topics ranging from Balzac's use of fairy-tale tropes to Huysmans' conversion narratives, Rimbaud's self-portraiture to Hitchcock's screening of hierophany. She is currently working on a critical edition and translation of Charles de Foucauld's Reconnaissance au Maroc (1883-1884). She dedicates the work in this article, with love and music, to the memories of her grandfather, Fred Roy Peters, Sr. (1918-1999) and her father, Fred Roy Peters, Jr. (1939-2010).