Translating war: literature and memory in France and Britain from the 1940s to the 1960s

This title examines the role played by the international circulation of literature in constructing cultural memories of WWII.

War writing has rarely been read from the point of view of translation even though war is by definition a multilingual event, and knowledge of WWII and the Holocaust is mediated through translated texts.

Kershaw opens up this field of research through analysis of important works of French war fiction and their English translations.

She 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.

This work will appeal to students and scholars of translation, cultural memory, war fiction and Holocaust writing.