Translating War Literature and Memory in France and Britain from the 1940s to the 1960s /

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kershaw, Angela (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: e-Book
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
Edition:1st ed. 2019.
Series:Palgrave Studies in Languages at War,
Subjects:
Translating and interpreting.
Comparative literature.
Collective memory.
Multilingualism.
World War, 1939-1945.
Fiction.
Language Translation.
Comparative Literature.
Memory Studies.
History of World War II and the Holocaust.
Fiction Literature.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1: Zones of Hospitality
  • Chapter 2: Translating the French Resistance in London and New York
  • Chapter 3: The War Novel in the Post-war Years in France and Britain: Comparative Perspectives
  • Chapter 4: The Goncourt Prize and the Second World War
  • Chapter 5: Layers of Translation: Multilingualism in War and Holocaust Fiction
  • Conclusion.

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