Editions Rodopi BV is pleased to announce the following new publication(s)
in German Studies:
-‘Stimme der Wahrheit’: German-Language Broadcasting by the BBC.
Edited by Charmian Brinson and Richard Dove. Amsterdam/New York, NY 2003.
XV, 250 pp. (The Yearbook of the Research Centre for German and Austrian
Exile Studies 5)
ISBN: 90-420-0978-0 € 53.-/US$ 66.-
- 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 € 55,-/US$ 65.-
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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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‘Stimme der Wahrheit’: German-Language Broadcasting by the BBC.
Edited by Charmian Brinson and Richard Dove.
Amsterdam/New York, NY 2003. XV, 250 pp.
(The Yearbook of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies
5)
ISBN: 90-420-0978-0 Paper € 53.-/US$ 66.-
The essays contained in this volume were originally delivered as papers to a
conference on the German-language broadcasting of the BBC, held in London in
2002. For over sixty years, the BBC German Service was Britain's most
authoritative voice to the German-speaking world, representing a virtual
paradigm of British cultural and political attitudes towards Germany and
Austria - and helping to define their perceptions of Britain and the
British.
Despite the BBC's enormous cultural standing and influence, however, this
volume is the first to evaluate the Corporation's German-language
broadcasting since the BBC German Service was closed down in 1999. The
essays fall into three broad categories: German-language broadcasting during
the Second World War, broadcasting to Germany and Austria during the Cold
War, and finally a series of personal accounts from former employees of the
Service. The volume will be of interest to scholars and students of
broadcasting (including media studies) as well as those involved in German
Studies and in German and Austrian Exile Studies.
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