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      Unceasing occupation : love and survival in three late-twentieth-century Canadian World War II novels

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      Date
      2004-06-23
      Author
      Tzupa, Jill Louise
      Type
      Thesis
      Degree Level
      Masters
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      Abstract
      The unprecedented acts of brutality, persecution, and genocide perpetrated in the Second World War caused ruptures within language, creating a need for both individual and collective re-definitions of love, privacy, truth, and survival. In recent years, there has been a resurgence of Second World War fiction in both Canada and abroad, which suggests a need among contemporary authors to analyse and to understand retrospectively the way World War II has influenced current political and racial divisions. By looking specifically at the romantic relationships depicted in The Ash Garden, The English Patient, and The Walnut Tree, three Canadian World War II novels all written approximately fifty years after the war, this thesis not only examines the question of what is necessary for survival and how the public world of war either enables or inhibits individual survival, but also isolates how race, gender, and the public world influence the characters’ ability to endure in reciprocal love.
      Degree
      Master of Arts (M.A.)
      Department
      English
      Program
      English
      Supervisor
      Calder, Robert L.
      Committee
      Zichy, Francis; McCannon, John; James-Cavan, Kathleen; Cooley, Ronald W.
      Copyright Date
      June 2004
      URI
      http://hdl.handle.net/10388/etd-08102004-184749
      Subject
      contamination
      love
      privacy
      politics
      war
      exile
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