02997nam 2200397 450 991047681650332120230507202312.0(CKB)5470000000566391(NjHacI)995470000000566391(EXLCZ)99547000000056639120230507d2005 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierTestimony from the Nazi Camps French Women's Voices /Margaret Anne HuttonFirst edition.London :Taylor & Francis,2005.1 online resource (viii, 255 pages)Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature ;Volume 1Includes index.1-134-27334-7 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.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 construction of deportee identities, it will interest those working in the fields of modern French literature, genre, women's studies and the Holocaust.Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature ;Volume 1.World War, 1939-1945Prisoners and prisons, GermanWorld War, 1939-1945Prisoners and prisons, German.940.5Hutton Margaret Anne978170NjHacINjHaclBOOK9910476816503321Testimony from the Nazi camps2228810UNINA