Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
This book presents the first comparative study of the works of Charlotte Delbo, Noor Inayat Khan, and Germaine Tillion in relation to their vigorous struggles against Nazi aggression during World War II and the Holocaust. It illuminates ways in which their early lives conditioned both their political engagements during wartime and their extraordinary literary creations empowered by what Lara R. Curtis refers to as modes of 'writing resistance.' With skillful recourse to a remarkable variety of genres, they offer compelling autobiographical reflections, vivid chronicles of wartime atrocities, eyewitness accounts of victims, and acute perspectives on the political implications of major events. Their sensitive reflections of gendered subjectivity authenticate the myriad voices and visions they capture. In sum, this book highlights the lives and works of three courageous women who were ceaselessly committed to a noble cause during the Holocaust and World War II.
Synopsis
1. Chapter 1 Introduction Writing Resistance and the Question of Gender: Charlotte Delbo, Noor Inayat Khan, And Germaine Tillion
2. Chapter 2 Charlotte Delbo: Writing the Afterlife
2.1 Writings Informed by Past Experience
2.2 Inscribing the Afterlife
2.3 Configurations of Death, Feminine Links
2.4 Maternal Figures, Transforming Women
2.5 A Spectral Presence and Afterlives of the Deceased
2.6 Idealizing the Post-Internment Future
2.7 Effigies of Men in Literature
2.8 Echoes of Fears and Anxieties
2.9 Encountering Death in Spectres, mes compagnons
2.10 Conclusion
3. Chapter 3 Noor Inayat Khan: Conceptualizing Resistance During World War II
3.1 A Literary Figure Emerges from the Prewar and Wartime Years
3.2 Creating Images of Resistance in Literature
3.3 Adapting and Blending Traditions of Sufism During Wartime Europe
3.4 Decoding Jakarta Tales in the Context of Resistance
3.5 New Resistance Narratives, Legends of War and Renewal
3.6 Nostalgia and Gendered Performativity
3.7 Princesses of the East: Empowerment, Exile, and Isolation
3.8 Powerful Feminine Voices and the End of an Era
3.9 The Sound of Sufism: A de of the Ocean and Land: A Play in Seven Acts
3.10 Personal Accounts: Letters from Noor to Azeem
3.11 Conclusion
4. Chapter 4 Germaine Tillion: Observations of Algeria and Ravensbr ck
4.1 Rising to Prominence in the Twenty-First Century
4.2 Representations of Algeria and Ravensbr ck
4.3 Creative Adaptation of Ethnological Methodologies
4.4 A Little Night Music: The Ethnographer as Impresario
4.5 A Tripartite Dynamic of Decline
4.6 Verf gbaren Are Born at Ravensbr ck
4.7 Uses of Humor at Ravensbr ck
4.8 Hierarchical Structures and a 'New Zoological Species'
4.9 Death at Ravensbr ck and in Algeria
4.10 A Post-Internment Publication and Revisiting Alge