1st Edition

Post-war Jewish Women's Writing in French Juives Francaises Ou Francaises Juives?

By Lucille Cairns Copyright 2011
    267 Pages
    by Routledge

    267 Pages
    by Routledge

    This monograph identifies the key preoccupations of forty-five primary texts by Jewish women published between 1945 and 2007. These texts have the potential to contribute to both a collective memory for and a history of twentieth- and twenty-first-century French-speaking Jews.

    Introduction 1. World War II: The Shoah and its Psycho-Memorial Legacies 2. Second Generation: The Transmission of Trauma 3. Nation/Deracination: Gendered Experiences of Diaspora and the French Republic 4. New Sites of Conflict: The Personal and the Political 5. Conclusion

    Biography

    Lucille Cairns