LEADER 03284cam a2200385Ia 4500001 81131 005 20240621153007.0 008 030312s2002 xx a r 000 0 eng d 035 (OCoLC)ocm52280963 035 81131 049 LHMA 040 LHM |beng |erda |cLHM 090 PN56.F35 |bF54 2002 100 1 Fleischer, Georgette, |d1957- 245 10 Genre departures : |bwomen writers and the crisis of representing National Socialism and World War II / |cGeorgette Fleischer. 264 1 [Place of publication not identified] : |b[publisher not identified], |c2002. 300 xiii, 371 pages 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 502 Thesis (Ph. D.)--Columbia University, 2002. 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-371). 520 This dissertation is a comparatist study of women writers' responses to National Socialism and World War II. In part one, I address theoretical responses by Rebecca West and Hannah Arendt; in part two, experimental literary responses by Virginia Woolf, Gertrude Stein, and the Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann. Genre Departures examines literary works in a number of genres: poetry and poetic meditation; journalism, travel, and memoir; neo-realist and postmodernist novel. It also crosses disciplines in order to examine writers who themselves crossed disciplines and in some cases national boundaries. Since the texts I examine were first published between 1936 and 1971, I begin with premonitory anticipations of the war and conclude with responses that are distinctively postwar and retrospective.I argue that National Socialism and the ruptures created by the ensuing war produced a seismic shift in the world of these women writers that expressed itself in their intellectual and aesthetic production. This is the result, as I read it, both of a Scheherezade effect, a production born of circumstantial desperation, and of a deep emotional need to explain these political developments. In addition, because of the ways in which gender inflected this particularly difficult and painful history, women writers occupied highly complicated political positions. I suggest that it is out of their sense of their own moral ambiguity in a world so fraught with aggression and destruction that women writers reached for one form of representation after another, in an attempt to work themselves into a more comfortable moral position. Ultimately their efforts constituted a historically-induced experimental movement. 530 Electronic version(s) |bavailable internally at USHMM. 533 Photocopy. |bAnn Arbor, Mich. : |cUMI Dissertation Services, |d2002. |e22 cm. 590 Dissertations and Theses 591 Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024 650 0 National socialism in literature. 650 0 Literature |xWomen authors |xHistory and criticism. 856 41 |uhttp://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=726132191&sid=21&Fmt=6&clientId=54617&RQT=309&VName=PQD |zElectronic version from ProQuest 956 41 |u http://dc.ushmm.org/library/bib81131/3037700.pdf |z Hosted by USHMM. 994 X0 |bLHM 852 0 |bstacks |hPN56.F35 |iF54 2002 852 |bwww 852 0 |bebook