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* L. Leigh Westerfield:
‘This Anguish, Like a Kind of Intimate Song’: Resistance in Women’s
Literature of World War II.
Amsterdam/New York, NY 2004. 236 pp.
(Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden
Literatutwissenschaft 74)
ISBN: 90-420-1148-3 Paper € 55,-/US$ 65.-
* Barbara Korte and Claudia Sternberg: Bidding for the Mainstream? Black and
Asian British Film since the 1990s. Amsterdam/New York, NY 2004. VIII, 274
pp. (Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden
Literaturwissenschaft 73)
ISBN: 90-420-1038-X Paper € 65,-/US$ 81.-
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L. Leigh Westerfield: ‘This Anguish, Like a Kind of Intimate Song’:
Resistance in Women’s Literature of World War II. Amsterdam/New York, NY
2004. 236 pp. (Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden
Literatutwissenschaft 74)
ISBN: 90-420-1148-3 Paper € 55,-/US$ 65.-
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.
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Barbara Korte and Claudia Sternberg: Bidding for the Mainstream? Black and
Asian British Film since the 1990s. Amsterdam/New York, NY 2004. VIII, 274
pp. (Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden
Literaturwissenschaft 73)
ISBN: 90-420-1038-X Paper € 65,-/US$ 81.-
This book looks at a sector of black and Asian British film and television
as it presented itself in the 1990s and early 2000s. For this period, a
‘mainstreaming’ of black and Asian British film has been observed in
criticism and theory and articulated by an increasing number of
practitioners themselves, referring to changing modes of production,
distribution and reception and implying a more popular and commercial
orientation of certain media products. This idea is a leitmotif for the
authors’ readings of recent films and examples of television drama,
including such diverse products as Young Soul Rebels and Babymother, East Is
East and Bend It Like Beckham, The Buddha of Suburbia and White Teeth. These
analyses are supplemented with a look at earlier landmark productions (like
Pressure) as well as relevant social, institutional and aesthetic
frameworks. The book closes with a selection of statements by black and
Asian media practitioners who operate from within Britain’s cultural
industries: Mike Phillips, Horace Ové, Julian Henriques, Parminder Vir and
Gurinder Chadha.
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