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Record Nr.

UNINA9910349538203321

Autore

Curtis Lara R

Titolo

Writing Resistance and the Question of Gender : Charlotte Delbo, Noor Inayat Khan, and Germaine Tillion / / by Lara R. Curtis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019

ISBN

3-030-31242-9

Edizione

[1st ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (169 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

940.53174386

809.93358

Soggetti

Judaism and culture

World War, 1939-1945

Women

Culture

Gender

Phenomenology 

Literature, Modern—20th century

Jewish Cultural Studies

History of World War II and the Holocaust

Women's Studies

Culture and Gender

Phenomenology

Twentieth-Century Literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1 Introduction Writing Resistance and the Question of Gender: Charlotte Delbo, Noor Inayat Khan, And Germaine Tillion,- Chapter 2 Charlotte Delbo: Writing the Afterlife -- Chapter 3 Noor Inayat Khan: Conceptualizing Resistance During World War II -- Chapter 4 Germaine Tillion: Observations of Algeria and Ravensbrück -- Chapter 5 Conclusion: Women’s Reflections on Wartime Experiences. .

Sommario/riassunto

This book presents the first comparative study of the works of Charlotte Delbo, Noor Inayat Khan, and Germaine Tillion in relation to



their vigorous struggles against Nazi aggression during World War II and the Holocaust. It illuminates ways in which their early lives conditioned both their political engagements during wartime and their extraordinary literary creations empowered by what Lara R. Curtis refers to as modes of ‘writing resistance.’ With skillful recourse to a remarkable variety of genres, they offer compelling autobiographical reflections, vivid chronicles of wartime atrocities, eyewitness accounts of victims, and acute perspectives on the political implications of major events. Their sensitive reflections of gendered subjectivity authenticate the myriad voices and visions they capture. In sum, this book highlights the lives and works of three courageous women who were ceaselessly committed to a noble cause during the Holocaust and World War II.