Krol Minority Language Writers in the Wake of World War One

A Case Study of Four European Authors
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-3-030-52040-3
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 346 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Minority Languages and Communities

This book presents a comparative literary study of the works of four writers working in European minority languages - Frisian, Welsh, Scots and Breton.  The author examines the different strategies employed by the four writers to create distinctive literary fields for their languages in the interwar era when self-determination had been promised to national minorities, finding that each had to make some degree of a step backwards into the past to enable them to make a leap forward. The book also discusses the problems resulting from this oscillation between traditionalism and modernism, drawing on concepts such as Pascale Casanova's '
littératures combatives
' to make sense of these minority languages and communities within the wider European context. This study will be of interest to students and scholars of minority languages - particularly the four explored here - as well as twentieth-century and comparative literature, multilingualism, and language policy.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Krol, Jelle

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Frisia and the World: Douwe Kalma During and Shortly After the First World War.- Chapter 3: Reconnecting Wales to Europe: Saunders Lewis in the Interwar Years.- Chapter 4: Where Extremes Meet: Hugh MacDiarmid in the Period After World War One.- Chapter 5: Roparz Hemon: Combative Linguistic and Literary Nationalism in the 1920s and 1930s.- Chapter 6: Conclusions.

Über Autor(innen)

Jelle Krol
 is a Subject Librarian and Specialist at Tresoar, the Frisian Literary and Historical Centre in Leeuwarden, The Netherlands. He received his PhD in 2018 from the University of Groningen, The Netherlands.