Angela Kershaw: 3 books
French Political Travel Writing in the Interwar Years
Radical Departures
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
This book studies travel writing produced by French authors between the two World Wars following visits to authoritarian regimes in Europe and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). It sheds new light on the phenomenon of French political travel in this period by considering the well-documented...
Before Auschwitz
Irène Némirovsky and the Cultural Landscape of Inter-war France
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
This book analyses Irene Némirovsky’s literary production in its relationship to the literary and cultural context of the inter-war period in France. It examines topics of central importance to our understanding of the literary field in France in the period, such as: the close relationship between...
Translating War
Literature and Memory in France and Britain from the 1940s to the 1960s
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2018
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...