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In a ground-breaking new study, Nicole Thatcher takes the reader through the concentration-camp writings of a lesser-known survivor of the World War II deportations. She explores the poetry and prose in which Charlotte Delbo committed to writing the reality which she herself had lived through. Dr. Thatchers work highlights Charlotte Delbos unique approach to literature, in which Delbo uses and transforms literary genres in order to present a new face of the concentration-camp experience. This work enters into a thorough consideration of Delbos different levels of memory and recall, as well as the specificity of womens experience as detainees. A novel aspect of Dr. Thatchers treatment is her study of the influences of the theatre both in Delbos perceptions of the experience and her recall and writing of it afterwards. Focusing on Delbos representation of the humanity and solidarity which existed among the detainees, Dr. Thatcher brings to life the tremendous courage and determination to survive evidenced by this extraordinary woman and writer. Ethel Tolansky
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