Post-war Jewish women's writing in French / Lucille Cairns.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cairns, Lucille, 1963-

Contributor:

Modern Humanities Research Association.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

French literature--Women authors--20th century--History and criticism.

French literature.

French literature--Jewish authors--20th century--History and criticism.

Jewish women authors.

French literature--Jewish authors.

French literature--Women authors.

Physical Description:

257 pages ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Legenda : Modern Humanities Research Association : Maney Pub., 2011.

Summary:

Cairns (French, Dearborn U.) discusses the work of 45 texts--not all of which she claims are aesthetically great; but she does claim that some of them are great and that their authors have suffered a "double exclusion" for being women and for being Jewish. She examines the reasons (French confusion of Judaism and Israeli politics, for example) and discusses 30 authors from 1945 to the present who have written in response to the great traumas of the 20th century. This book is published by Legenda, an imprint of Modern Humanities Research Association and Maney Publishing; it is distributed in North America by The David Brown Book Co. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

World War II : the Shoah and its psycho-memorial legacies

Second generation : the transmission of trauma

Nation/deracination : gendered experiences of diaspora and the French Republic

New sites of conflict : the personal and the political.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [246]-254) and index.

ISBN:

9781906540401

1906540403

OCLC:

731677878