Literature and Justice in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain

Crimes and War Crimes
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-0-19-285823-8
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 208 mm, Gewicht: 386 g

Reihe: Oxford Mid-Century Studies Series

Literature and Justice in Mid Twentieth Century Britain: Crime and War Crimes examines how ideas about crime, criminality, and judicial procedure that had developed in a domestic context influenced the representation and understanding of war crimes trials, victims of war crimes, and war criminals in post-Second World War Britain. The representation of Belsen concentration camp and the subsequent British-run trial of its personnel are a particular focal
point. Drawing on a range of source material including life-writing, journalism, and detective fiction, as well as criminological and sociological works from this period, this book explains why the fate of the Jews and other victims of the Nazis was sometimes brought starkly into focus and sometimes marginalised
in public discourse at this period. What remain are glimpses of the events now called the Holocaust, but glimpses that can be as powerful and as meaningful as more direct or explicit representations.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stewart, Victoria

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Völkermord, Ethnische Säuberung, Kriegsverbrechen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte Deutsche Geschichte: Holocaust

Über Autor(innen)

Victoria Stewart is Honorary Visiting Fellow at the School of Arts, University of Leicester, UK. She has published widely on war writing and crime writing.