Testimony from the Nazi Camps : : French Women's Voices / / Margaret Anne Hutton.

This interdisciplinary study intergrates historiographical, literary and cultural methodologies in its focus on a little known corpus of testimonial accounts published by French women deported to Nazi camps. Comprising epistemological and literary analyses of the accounts and an examination of the c...

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Superior document:Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature ; Volume 1
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Place / Publishing House:London : : Taylor & Francis,, 2005.
Year of Publication:2005
Edition:First edition.
Language:English
Series:Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature ; Volume 1.
Physical Description:1 online resource (viii, 255 pages).
Notes:Includes index.
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  • Acknowledgements ix Introduction 1 (6) PART I Textual identities 7 (94) 1 Textual identities I: the epistemological status of the eye-witness account 9 (42) Who wrote the accounts? 9 (13) What are the accounts? 22 (13) When were the accounts written and published? 35 (7) Why were the accounts written? 42 (9) 2 Textual identities II: the accounts as textual constructs 51 (50) Telling it as it was: truth, artifice and paradox 51 (18) 'Un peu d'artifice': communication and reception 69 (32) PART II Deportee identities 101 (119) 3 Deportee identities I: gender and sexuality 103 (39) Female/male relations 105 (8) Same-sex relations 113 (8) The female body 121 (9) 'Feminine' preoccupations 130 (6) Motherhood 136 (4) Conclusion 140 (2) 4 Deportee identities II: nationality, class, politics 142 (34) National identities 142 (18) Class identities 160 (6) Political identities 166 (10) 5 Deportee identities III: Jewish identities 176 (34) Imposed identities: Jewish otherness and specificity 177 (15) Assumed identities: Jewish-authored texts 192 (13) Republicanism and (imagined) communities 205 (5) 6 Conclusion: the case of Charlotte Delbo 210 (10) Textual identities 210 (5) Deportee identities 215 (3) Canon vs margin? 218 (2) Notes 220 (15) Bibliography 235 (11) Index 246.