Writing occupation : Jewish émigré voices in wartime France / Julia Elsky.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Elsky, Julia, author.

Contributor:

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, associated with work.

Series:

Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture.

Stanford scholarship online.

Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture

Stanford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

French literature--Jewish authors--History and criticism.

French literature.

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

Jewish authors--France--Language--History--20th century.

Jewish authors.

French language--Political aspects--History--20th century.

French language.

World War, 1939-1945--France--Literature and the war.

World War, 1939-1945.

France--History--German occupation, 1940-1945.

France.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 p.)

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2021.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Why did some of the most brilliant - but often forgotten - Jewish émigre writers of the first half of the twentieth century choose to write in French as a second language, even as they faced a double exclusion as foreigners and as Jews under Vichy? Jewish writers of Eastern European origin who immigrated to France before the Second World War (including Benjamin Fondane, Romain Gary, Jean Malaquais, Irène Némirovsky, and Elsa Triolet) switched from writing in their languages of origin to writing primarily in French, even when their Frenchness was being violently denied by the state. In this manuscript, Julia Elsky argues that these Jewish émigré writers harnessed the potential multilingualism of French to express hybrid and shifting cultural, religious, and linguistic identities before and during the Occupation.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Introduction Jewish Émigré Writers and the French Language

1 A Jewish Poetics of Exile: Benjamin Fondane’s Exodus

2 Accents in Jean Malaquais’s Carrefour Marseille

3 European Language and the Resistance: Romain Gary’s Heteroglossia

4 Buried Language: Elsa Triolet’s Bilingualism

5 Displacing Stereotypes: Irène Némirovsky in the Occupied Zone

Epilogue Memory, Language, and Jewish Francophonie

Notes

Index

Notes:

"Published in association with United States Holocaust Memorial Museum"--Title page verso.

Previously issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on April 19, 2021).

ISBN:

9781503614369

1503614360

OCLC:

1224278892