Testimony from the Nazi Camps: French Women's Voices

ISBN-13: 9780415349338 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 217 str.

Margaret-Anne Hutton

Opis

This book focuses on a little-known corpus of testimonial accounts published by French women deported to Nazi camps, and will be of interest to those studying modern French literature, women's studies and the Holocaust.

Spis treści

Introduction PART I Textual identities 1 Textual identities I: the epistemological status of the eye-witness account 2 Textual identities II: the accounts as textual constructs PART II Deportee identities 3 Deportee identities I: gender and sexuality 4 Deportee identities II: nationality, class, politics 5 Deportee identities III: Jewish identities 6 Conclusion: the case of Charlotte Delbo

O autorze

Margaret-Anne Hutton is Senior Lecturer in French at the University of Nottingham. She is the author of The Novels of Christiane Rochefort: Countering the Culture (1998), Michel Tournier's Vendredi ou les Limbes du Pacifique (1992), and editor of French Fiction in the 1990s (2002) and Text(e)/Image (1999). She has published widely in the fields of contemporary French fiction and female-authored WWII testimonial accounts.