Édith Thomas : : A Passion for Resistance / / Dorothy Kaufmann.

Édith Thomas (1909-1970), a remarkable French woman of letters, was deeply involved in the traumatic upheavals of her time: most crucially the resistance to Nazi occupation and the collaborationist Vichy regime, but also the Spanish Civil War and the Algerian War. During the occupation, she played a...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©2004
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.) :; 2 line drawings, 9 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • lntrodudion
  • 1. A Daughter of the Republic
  • 2. Illness and Phantom Lovers
  • 3. "To Rediscover a Reason to Live"
  • 4. Fellow Traveling and Its Discontents
  • 5. Diary of Resistance, Diary of Collaboration
  • 6. Writing Underground
  • 7. Uses of the Past
  • 8. The Liberation of Paris and the End of the War
  • 9. Story of Two Women: Edith Thomas and Dominique Aury
  • 10. Feminine Humanism versus Existentialism
  • 11. The Compromised Witness: Leaving the Communist Party
  • 12. The Compromised Witness: The Quarrel with Jean Paulhan
  • 13. From Novels to Women's Histories
  • 14. Wartime Truths: La Question and Algeria; Rosse
  • 15. Endings
  • Notes
  • Index