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'This Anguish, Like a Kind of Intimate Song'

'This Anguish, Like a Kind of Intimate Song' PDF Author: Lillian Leigh Westerfield
Publisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9789042011489
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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This literary history explores the reality of European women's roles in fighting Nazism. By comparing the resistance literature of French and German authors, this book links the traditional gender expectations for women and the conventions of their everyday lives with their unique forms of resistance. Theirs was an opposition grounded in the ordinary, beyond the sphere of political violence. Women were long regarded as outsiders to combat and politics, with no stake in upholding resistance myths. Women authors therefore freely rendered the personal and moral landscape of the resister's world in a new vocabulary. They revised standard rhetoric and replaced heroism and bullets with the values of home, human relationships, and candid acknowledgement of the sorrow, fear, and uncertainty of war.