Translating war : literature and memory in France and Britain from the 1940s to the 1960s /

Translating war : literature and memory in France and Britain from the 1940s to the 1960s / Angela Kershaw.

This book examines the role played by the international circulation of literature in constructing cultural memories of the Second World War. War writing has rarely been read from the point of view of translation even though war is by definition a multilingual event, and knowledge of the Second World...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Main Author: Kershaw, Angela (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: [Cham, Switzerland] : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]
Series:Palgrave studies in languages at war.
Subjects:
War and literature > France > History.
War and literature > France > Translations into English > History.
French fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
World War, 1939-1945 > Literature and the war.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.
Memory in literature.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in literature.
French fiction.
War and literature.
France.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Zones of Hospitality
  • 3. Translating the French Resistance in London and New York
  • 4. The War Novel in the Post-War Years in France and Britain: Comparative Perspectives
  • 5. The Goncourt Prize and the Second World War in France and Britain, 1945-51
  • 6. Layers of Translation: Multilingualism in War and Holocaust Fiction
  • 7. Conclusion
  • Appendix 1
  • Appendix 2
  • Index.

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