Minority Language Writers in the Wake of World War One

A Case Study of Four European Authors

Jelle Krol (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

XIII, 346 Seiten

2021 | 1st ed. 2020
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-52042-7 (ISBN)

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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.

lt;b>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.

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.

Erscheinungsdatum	22.08.2021
Reihe/Serie	Palgrave Studies in Minority Languages and Communities
Zusatzinfo	XIII, 346 p. 5 illus., 3 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	467 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
Schlagworte	Autonomy • Breton • Comparative Literature • Cultural Nationalism • Frisian • interwar literature • Language Policy • literary diction • minority languages • Multilingualism • post-nationalism • Scots • Self-determination • Welsh
ISBN-10	3-030-52042-0 / 3030520420
ISBN-13	978-3-030-52042-7 / 9783030520427
Zustand	Neuware