Writing Resistance and the Question of Gender Charlotte Delbo, Noor
This book presents the first comparative study of the works of Charlotte Delbo, Noor Inayat Khan, and Germaine Tillion in relation to their vigorous struggles against Nazi aggression during World War II and the Holocaust. It illuminates ways in which thei
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Writing Resistance and the Question of Gender
Lara R. Curtis
Writing Resistance and the Question of Gender Charlotte Delbo, Noor Inayat Khan, and Germaine Tillion
Lara R. Curtis Five Colleges Incorporated Amherst, MA, USA
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To the memory of Arnold Friedmann (1925–2017) Survivor and co-teacher Generous, Caring, Exemplary
Acknowledgements
This study began during my doctoral and postdoctoral work in Comparative Literature and French and Francophone Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and originates from my Ph.D. dissertation, Writing Resistance and the Question of Gender: Charlotte Delbo, Noor Inayat Khan, and Germaine Tillion, which I have substantially revised and updated for this book. I thank the members of my committee for reading successive drafts of my dissertation in its early stages and for offering me many useful comments and feedback: Professors Catherine Portuges (chair), Anne Ciecko, William Moebius, and James Young. I have had an extraordinary opportunity to study and analyze the kinds of fascinating relationships between history and world literatures that have occupied me in this research into the careers and writings of three remarkable women. In this book I analyze in depth the prewar and wartime lives of Charlotte Delbo, Noor Inayat Khan, and Germaine Tillion, with particular attention to ways in which their personal experiences conditioned their unwavering politica
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