Projektnummer

0058832

Zusammenfassung

"French and Foreign: Writing in Occupied France" explores émigré authors from Eastern Europe who moved between adopted and native languages as they were forced to shift their cultural identities in Occupied France. These novelists, poets, and playwrights came to France in the 1920s, adopting French as their literary language. Their world was turned upside down when the Vichy regime and Nazi occupiers revoked their place in the French nation through discriminatory and Antisemitic laws. Literary studies have only recently turned to immigrant writers from Eastern Europe in the period of W...