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A family occupation : children of the war and the memory of World War II in Dutch literature of the 1980s / Jolanda Vanderwal Taylor.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vanderwal Taylor, Jolanda, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dutch literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- Dutch literature.
- Children in literature.
- World War, 1939-1945--Children--Netherlands.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Netherlands--Literature and the war.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 211 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 1997.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Many of today's Dutch writers were children during World War II. Even today, the traumatic childhood experience of enemy occupation is still central to the work of many of them. This interest cuts across the traditional boundaries between fiction, autobiography and the literature of trauma and recovery. A Family Occupation is the first English-language introduction to Dutch-language texts written by and about the 'Children of the War' and their cultural context. Their themes and literary conventions throw an interesting light on the Dutch approach to issues such as guilt and innocence, memory and narrative, national identity, child abuse and victimhood.
- Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Anton's story
- 3. Innocent children
- 4. Language is the landscape of history : armando and history of enmity
- 5. Judgment, justice, and other collaborations
- 6. Distant cousins.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 Jan 2021).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0https://www.aup.nl/en/publish/open-access
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed October 02 2025)
- ISBN:
- 9786612591648
- 9781282591646
- 1282591649
- 9789048512539
- 9048512530
- OCLC:
- 593356116
- Access Restriction:
- Open access Unrestricted online access
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