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AccessType
Open Access Dissertation
Document Type
dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Degree Program
Comparative Literature
Year Degree Awarded
2016
Month Degree Awarded
February
First Advisor
Catherine Portuges
Second Advisor
James Young
Third Advisor
Anne Ciecko
Fourth Advisor
William Moebius
Subject Categories
Arts and Humanities
Abstract
In this dissertation I profile and compare the lives and works of Charlotte Delbo, Noor Inayat Khan, and Germaine Tillion, who were of the same generation and who actively participated in the French Resistance during the Holocaust. I discuss ways in which these writers frequently infuse modes of art and frequently theater into their works, in literary characters, situations, imagery, and gendered subjectivity. I introduce my notion of “writing resistance,” by which I mean not only these writers’ eye witness accounts and representations of the historical events of WW II, but especially their subjective, often quite intimate reflections on their own personal engagements in initiatives aimed at resisting the devastating onslaught of Nazi power. “Writing resistance” thus examines how these writers’ works and experiences foreground their respective roles as résistantes.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.7275/7752966.0
Recommended Citation
Curtis, Lara R., "Writing Resistance and the Question of Gender: Charlotte Delbo, Noor Inayat Khan, and Germaine Tillion" (2016). Doctoral Dissertations. 560.
https://doi.org/10.7275/7752966.0
https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations_2/560