The romanticized image of the heroic male resistance  fighter in World War II belies a truth that is both darker and more  personal. This literary history explores, for the first time, the  reality of European women’s roles in fighting Nazism. By comparing the  resistance literature of French and German authors—both famous and  more obscure—this innovative book links the traditional gender  expectations for women and the conventions of their everyday lives  with their unique forms of resistance. Theirs was an opposition  grounded in the ordinary, beyond the sphere of political  violence. Women were long regarded as outsiders to combat and  politics, with no stake in upholding resistance myths. Women authors  therefore freely rendered the personal and moral landscape of the  resister’s world in a new vocabulary. They revised standard rhetoric  and replaced heroism and bullets with the values of home, human  relationships, and candid acknowledgement of the sorrow, fear, and  uncertainty of war.    A groundbreaking study for students of European history, women’s studies, peace studies, or comparative literature, this volume is also accessible to a general audience interested in the role of women in World War II.

This Anguish, Like a Kind of Intimate Song: Resistance in Women's Literature of World War II (Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden ... & Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft)

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