ISBN:
9781503613676
Language:
English
Pages:
XI, 273 Seiten
Year of publication:
2020
Series Statement:
Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Elsky, Julia Writing occupation
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Elsky, Julia Writing occupation
DDC:
840.9/21296
Keywords:
French literature Jewish authors
;
History and criticism
;
French literature History and criticism 20th century
;
Jewish authors Language 20th century
;
History
;
French language Political aspects 20th century
;
History
;
World War, 1939-1945 Literature and the war
;
France History German occupation, 1940-1945
;
Französisch
;
Literatur
;
Juden
;
Autor
;
Auswanderer
;
Geschichte 1940-1945
Abstract:
Jewish émigré writers and the French language -- A Jewish poetics of exile : Benjamin Fondane's exodus -- Accents in Jean Malaquais' carrefour Marseille -- European language and the Resistance : Romain Gary's heteroglossia -- Buried language : Elsa Triolet's bilingualism -- Displacing stereotypes : Irène Némirovsky in the Occupied Zone -- Epilogue : memory, language, and Jewish Francophonie.
Abstract:
"Among the Jewish writers who immigrated from Eastern Europe to France in the 1910s and 1920s, a number chose to switch from writing in their languages of origin to writing primarily in French, a language that represented both a literary center and the promises of French universalism. But under the Nazi occupation of France from 1940 to 1944, these Jewish émigré writers-among them Irene Némirovsky, Benjamin Fondane, Romain Gary, Jean Malaquais, and Elsa Triolet-continued to write in their adopted language, even as the Vichy regime and Nazi occupiers denied their French identity through xenophobic and antisemitic laws. In this book, Julia Elsky argues that these writers reexamined both their Jewishness and their place as authors in France through the language in which they wrote. The group of authors Elsky considers depicted key moments in the war from their perspective as Jewish émigrés, including the June 1940 civilian flight from Paris, life in the Occupied and Southern Zones, the roundups and internment camps, and the Resistance in France and in London. Writing in French, they expressed multiple cultural, religious, and linguistic identities, challenging the boundaries between center and periphery, between French and foreign, even when their sense of belonging was being violently denied"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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