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
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2019, 2019
Edition:1st ed. 2019
Series:Palgrave Studies in Languages at War
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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