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Discourse and defiance under Nazi occupation : Guernsey, Channel Islands, 1940-1945 / Cheryl R. Jorgensen-Earp.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jorgensen-Earp, Cheryl R., 1952-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1939-1945--Guernsey.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Government, Resistance to--Guernsey--History--20th century.
- Government, Resistance to.
- Channel Islands--History--German occupation, 1940-1945.
- Channel Islands.
- Guernsey--History--20th century.
- Guernsey.
- Guernsey--Social conditions--20th century.
- Guernsey--Politics and government--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (319 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [2013]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Captured by German forces shortly after Dunkirk, and not relinquished until May of 1945, nearly a year after the Normandy invasion, the British Channel Islands (Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, Sark, and Herm) were characterized during their occupation by severe deprivation and powerlessness. The Islanders, with few resources to stage an armed resistance, constructed a rhetorical resistance based upon the manipulation of discourse, construction of new symbols, and defiance of German restrictions on information. Though much of modern history has focused on the possibility that Islanders m
- Contents:
- The Panoptical Occupation
- The Bedrock of Resistance
- Reaching for Control
- Understanding the Story
- A Subtle Resistance.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-60917-369-4
- OCLC:
- 865171693
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