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art and resistance in WWII
arts as testimony to genocide
Auschwitz survivor story
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biography of a French resistance writer
breaking with the Communist Party in postwar Europe
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Charlotte Delbo biography
concentration camp narratives by women
cultural memory of the Holocaust
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French literature of war and survival
French resistance during WWII
French women and Nazi persecution
historical memory and literature
Holocaust and political ideology
Holocaust biographies translated into English
Holocaust literature and testimony
Holocaust memoirs and testimonies
Holocaust poetry and prose
Holocaust resis
Holocaust witness narratives
intellectual resistance under fascism
leftist women in wartime France
legacy of Charlotte Delbo
life of a Holocaust survivor writer
literature as historical witness
literature born from atrocity
literature of survival
memory and trauma in Holocaust literature
Moliere and survival in Auschwitz
postwar literary activism
power of art in times of atrocity
Prix Femina winning biography
Ravensbruck concentration camp accounts
remembering the Holocaust through art
stories of endurance and resilience
survival through language
testimony against tyranny
testimony through literature
witness literature of the 20th century
women in concentration camps
women of the French Resistance
women writers of the Holocaust
women's Holocaust narratives in translation
World War II deportation narratives
writers as witnesses to history
writing as resistance
WWII deportation to Auschwitz
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- ISBN 9781625345783
- Weight: 675g
- Dimensions: 149 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 28 May 2021
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In 1943, Charlotte Delbo and 229 other women were deported to a station with no name, which they later learned was Auschwitz. Arrested for resisting the Nazi occupation of Paris, Delbo was sent to the camps, enduring both Auschwitz and RavensbrÜck for twenty-seven months. There, she, her fellow deportees, and millions of others were subjected to slave labor and nearly succumbed to typhus, dysentery, and hunger. She sustained herself by reciting MoliÈre and resolved to someday write a book about herself and her fellow deportees, a stunning work called None of Us Will Return. After the camps, Delbo devoted her life to the art of writing and the duty of witnessing, fiercely advocating for the power of the arts to testify against despotism and tyranny.
Ghislaine Dunant's unforgettable biography of Delbo, La vie retrouvÉe (2016), captivated French readers and was awarded the Prix Femina. Now translated into English for the first time, Charlotte Delbo: A Life Reclaimed depicts Delbo's lifelong battles as a working-class woman, as a survivor, as a leftist who broke from the Communist Party, and most of all, as a writer whose words compelled others to see.
Ghislaine Dunant's unforgettable biography of Delbo, La vie retrouvÉe (2016), captivated French readers and was awarded the Prix Femina. Now translated into English for the first time, Charlotte Delbo: A Life Reclaimed depicts Delbo's lifelong battles as a working-class woman, as a survivor, as a leftist who broke from the Communist Party, and most of all, as a writer whose words compelled others to see.
Ghislaine Dunant is the author of five books, among them Brazen and Un effondrement, winner of the Michel Dentan Prize.
Kathryn M. Lachman is associate professor of comparative literature at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Kathryn M. Lachman is associate professor of comparative literature at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
