The book examines the wartime publishing structures which facilitated literary exchanges across national borders, the strategies adopted by translators of war fiction, the relationships between translated war fiction and dominant national memories of the war, and questions of multilingualism in war writing.
Angela Kershaw is Senior Lecturer in French Studies at the University of Birmingham, UK. She specialises in twentieth-century French literature, with particular interests in the inter-war and Second World War periods, translation studies and gender, and has published widely on these topics.
Introduction.- Chapter 1: Zones of Hospitality.- Chapter 2: Translating the French Resistance in London and New York.- Chapter 3: The War Novel in the Post-war Years in France and Britain: Comparative Perspectives.- Chapter 4: The Goncourt Prize and the Second World War.- Chapter 5: Layers of Translation: Multilingualism in War and Holocaust Fiction.- Conclusion.