Thesis (Ph. D.)--Lehigh University, 2006. / Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 196-205).

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The purpose of this study is to focus on the destiny of an unknown Jewish poet Ilse Weber (1903-1944). In the first part, the emergence of the Holocaust Literature is presented. The thesis then illustrates the history of the Jewish population in the Czech lands. The main attention is paid to the life and writings of Ilse Weber. She was born in Vítkovice near Ostrava and wrote in German, notably songs, fairy tales and theater pieces for children. During her imprisonment in the Terezín concentration camp she wrote around sixty poems, which were luckily saved. These writings describe the horror of her surroundings. Her husband and the older son survived the war, Ilse and the younger boy were sent to the gas chamber on arrival at Auschwitz in October 1944. In conclusion, the thesis argues that this forgotten poet was an admirable personality, who was able to grasp emotions and give hope to others in hard times. KEYWORDS Holocaust, World War II, literature, Jews, Terezín.

La Deuxième Guerre mondiale fut au Japon l’occasion d’une production massive de récits de guerre, aujourd’hui largement oubliée. Ces textes sont pris entre l’injonction faite aux écrivains de participer à l’effort national, et l’idée reçue selon laquelle ceux-ci ne peuvent saisir la réalité de la guerre. Cette thèse s’attache à démontrer que c’est dans la négociation au sein des textes de ce paradoxe que le monde littéraire japonais conçut et reconnut sa littérature de guerre. Le plan distingue trois moments successifs, afin de refléter à la fois les modalités changeantes de l’engagement des écrivains dans la guerre, et les différentes écritures qui en rendirent compte. La première partie traite de la première année du conflit, durant laquelle les médias japonais employèrent les écrivains comme envoyés spéciaux sur le front chinois ; leurs reportages montrent la quête d’une valeur propre de l’expérience des écrivains. La deuxième partie (1938-1941) se concentre sur le succès phénoménal de la figure du « soldat-écrivain », et ses conséquences sur l’écriture de la guerre. La publication du journal du caporal d’infanterie et lauréat du prix Akutagawa Hino Ashihei parut offrir un modèle de purification de la littérature par le combat qui disqualifiait de fait les écrivains institutionnalisés. La troisième et dernière partie aborde la « réquisition des lettrés », au cours de laquelle l’armée contraignit près d’une centaine d’écrivains à partir dans les nouvelles colonies japonaises du Pacifique. Les grands succès critiques issus de ce dispositif inédit de coercition sont marqués par une volonté ostensible de faire littérature à travers la guerre. / The Second World War saw in Japan a massive production of war stories, today widely forgotten. These texts are caught between the injunction made to writers to participate in the national effort, and the general notion that they cannot grasp the reality of war. This thesis aims to demonstrate that it is in the negotiation of this paradox within the texts that the Japanese literary world conceived and recognised its war literature. The plan distinguishes three successive moments, in order to reflect both the changing modalities of writers' engagement in the war, and the different writings that accounted for them.The first part deals with the first year of the conflict, during which the Japanese media employed the writers as special correspondents on the Chinese front; their reports show the quest for a specific value of writers' experience. The second part (1938-1941) focuses on the phenomenal success of the ‘soldier-writer’ figure, and its consequences on the writing of the war. The publication of infantry corporal and Akutagawa Prize laureate Hino Ashihei’s diary seemed to offer a model of purification of literature by combat that disqualified the institutionalised writers. The third and last part deals with the ‘requisition of scholars’, during which the army forced close to a hundred writers to leave for the new Japanese colonies in the Pacific. Critical successes that emerged from this unprecedented coercion system are marked by an ostensible will to produce genuine literature through the war.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Tufts University, 2003. / Adviser: Laurence Senelick. Submitted to the Dept. of Drama. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 222-251). Access restricted to members of the Tufts University community. Also available via the World Wide Web;

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