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Colonial Strangers

Women Writing the End of the British Empire

By: Phyllis Lassner

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Colonial Strangers

Women Writing the End of the British Empire

By: Phyllis Lassner

This title aims to revolutionize modern British literary studies by showing how our interpretations of the postcolonial must confront World War II and the Holocaust. Lassner's analysis reveals how writers such as Muriel Spark, Olivia Manning, Rumer Godden, Phyllis Bottome, Elspeth Huxley and Zadie Smith insist that World War II is critical to understanding how and why the British Empire had to end. to the end of fascism. Drawing on memoirs, fiction, reportage and film adaptations, the book explores the critical perspectives of women who are passionately engaged with Britian's struggle to yield the last vestiges of imperial power. British women as agents of imperialism by questioning their own participation in British claims of moral righteousness and British politics of cultural exploitation. The authors discussed take centre stage in debates about connections between the racist ideologies of the Third Reich and the British Empire.

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Rutgers University Press

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0813534178

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9780813534176

British Women Writers of World War II

Battlegrounds of their Own

By: P. Lassner

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Battlegrounds of their Own

By: P. Lassner

In British Women Writers of World War II , Phyllis Lassner offers a challenging analysis of politicized literature in which such British women writers as Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Bowen, Stevie Smith and Storm Jameson debated the `justness' of World War II. Lassner questions prevailing approaches to women's war writing by exploring the complex range of pacifist and activist literary forms of women who redefined such pieties as patriotism and duty and heroism and victimization.

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Springer

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0230503780

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9780230503786

Anglo-Jewish Women Writing the Holocaust

Displaced Witnesses

By: P. Lassner

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Anglo-Jewish Women Writing the Holocaust

Displaced Witnesses

By: P. Lassner

In its analysis of Anglo-Jewish women writing the Holocaust, this book highlights the necessity of their inclusion in the evolving canon of modern British literature, by showing how these writers complicate theories of trauma and memory by using fantasy and the Gothic as a response to silence.

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0230227368

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9780230227361

Espionage and Exile

Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Spy Fiction and Film

By: Lassner Phyllis Lassner

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Espionage and Exile

Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Spy Fiction and Film

By: Lassner Phyllis Lassner

Analyses mid-twentieth century British spy thrillers as resistance to political oppressionEspionage and Exile demonstrates that from the 1930s through the Cold War British writers Eric Ambler, Helen MacInnes, John le Carr Pamela Frankau and filmmaker Leslie Howard combine propaganda and popular entertainment to call for resistance to political oppression. Their spy fictions deploy themes of deception and betrayal to warn audiences of the consequences of Nazi Germany's conquests and later, the fusion of Fascist and Communist oppression. With politically charged suspense and compelling plots and characters, these writers challenge distinctions between villain and victim and exile and belonging by dramatising relationships between stateless refugees, British agents, and most dramatically, between the ethics of espionage and responses to international crisis.Key FeaturesThe first narrative analysis of mid-twentieth century British spy thrillers demonstrating their critiques of political responses to the dangers of Fascism, Nazism, and CommunismCombines research in history and political theory with literary and film analysisAdds interpretive complexity to understanding the political content of modern cultural productionOriginal close readings of the fiction of Eric Ambler, John Le Carr and British women spy thriller writers of World War II and the Cold War, including Helen MacInnes, Ann Bridge, and Pamela Frankau as well as the wartime radio broadcasts and films of Leslie Howard

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Edinburgh University Press

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147441673X

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9781474416733

Islam in the Middle Ages

The Origins and Shaping of Classical Islamic Civilization

By: Jacob Lassner,Michael Bonner

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Islam in the Middle Ages

The Origins and Shaping of Classical Islamic Civilization

By: Jacob Lassner,Michael Bonner

In the Middle Ages, a varied and vibrant Islamic culture flourished in all its aspects, from religious institutions to legal and scientific endeavors. Lassner, Reisman, and Bonner detail how all three montheist traditions are linked to the same sacred history. They trace the most current scholarship on the Arabian background to Islam, the prophet's early religious message and its appeal. They the Qur'an and how it would have been understood by the earliest generations of Muslims. How much does historical memory come into play in current depictions of this early era? Beyond religious institutions, Muslim scholars and scientists were vital to both the transmission of knowledge from the Greek civilization and to the uninterrupted progress of science. The authors explore the role that non-Muslim minorities played within this culture and they detail the splits within the Muslim world that continue to this day.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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031304709X

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9780313047091

British Women Writers of World War II

Battlegrounds of their Own

By: P. Lassner

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Battlegrounds of their Own

By: P. Lassner

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Anglo-Jewish Women Writing the Holocaust

Displaced Witnesses

By: P. Lassner

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Displaced Witnesses

By: P. Lassner

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Espionage and Exile

Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Spy Fiction and Film

By: Lassner Phyllis Lassner

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Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Spy Fiction and Film

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Edinburgh University Press

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Colonial Strangers

Women Writing the End of the British Empire

By: Phyllis Lassner

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Women Writing the End of the British Empire

By: Phyllis Lassner

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Rutgers University Press

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Elizabeth Bowen

By: Phyllis Lassner

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Elizabeth Bowen

By: Phyllis Lassner

Elizabeth Bowen is now recognized as a major British novelist and short story writer. Phyllis Lassner shows how Bowen's Anglo-Irish heritage made her an astute critic of women's possibilities and constraints. In a reassessment of Bowen's major fiction, The Last September, Friends and Relations, To the North, The House in Paris, The Death of the Heart, and DEGREESIThe Heat of the Day, the author shows how Bowen's novels of manners and sensibility also revise traditional notions of female character. This feminist reading of Bowen's life and novels explores her concerns for women's creative and sexual expression in a society where great social change threatens traditional values. At a time when women were achieving professional careers and making independent choices for their personal lives, Bowen's novels provide a critique of the literary and social conventions which constrained women in maternal roles. Phyllis Lassner shows how contemporary feminist theory establishes Bowen's compelling importance for contemporary readers. Contents: Elizabeth Bowen's Life; The Last September; Friends and Relations DEGREESR and To the North; The House in Paris; The Death of the Heart; The Heat of the Day; Elizabeth Bo

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Barnes & Noble Imports

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0389208795

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9780389208792

I Was a Doctor in Auschwitz

By: Gisella Perl

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I Was a Doctor in Auschwitz

By: Gisella Perl

Gisella Perl’s memoir is the extraordinarily candid account of women’s extreme efforts to survive Auschwitz. With writing as powerful as that of Charlotte Delbo and Ruth Kluger, her story individualizes and therefore humanizes a victim of mass dehumanization. Perl accomplished this by representing her life before imprisonment, in Auschwitz and other camps, and in the struggle to remake her life. It is also the first memoir by a woman Holocaust survivor and establishes the model for understanding the gendered Nazi policies and practices targeting Jewish women as racially poisonous. Perl’s memoir is also significant for its inclusion of the Nazis’ Roma victims as well as in-depth representations of Nazi women guards and other personnel. Unlike many important Holocaust memoirs, Perl’s writing is both graphic in its horrific detail and eloquent in its emotional responses. One of the memoir’s major historical contributions is Perl’s account of being forced to work alongside Dr. Josef Mengele in his infamous so-called clinic and using her position to save the lives of other women prisoners. These efforts including infanticide and abortion, topics that would remain silenced for decades and, unfortunately, continue to be marginalized from all too many Holocaust accounts. After decades out of print, this new edition will ensure the crucial place of Perl’s testimony on Holocaust memory and education.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1498583938

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Book's by Lassner Phyllis Lassner

Colonial Strangers

Colonial Strangers

British Women Writers of World War II

British Women Writers of World War II

Anglo-Jewish Women Writing the Holocaust

Anglo-Jewish Women Writing the Holocaust

Espionage and Exile

Espionage and Exile

Islam in the Middle Ages

Islam in the Middle Ages

British Women Writers of World War II

British Women Writers of World War II

Anglo-Jewish Women Writing the Holocaust

Anglo-Jewish Women Writing the Holocaust

Espionage and Exile

Espionage and Exile

Colonial Strangers

Colonial Strangers

Elizabeth Bowen

Elizabeth Bowen

I Was a Doctor in Auschwitz

I Was a Doctor in Auschwitz

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