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Identifier	Thesis 1900
Author	St. Andre, Amal N. (Amal Nathalie), 1956-
Title	The role of women in the resistance according to the French novel after 1980
Publisher	Central Connecticut State University
Date	2007
Resource Type	Master's Thesis
Notes	The Resistance in France played an important role in ending the German occupation. The women in France who took part in the Resistance played a vital role, a role which was not previously talked about in much detail. Historians waited forty years before really studying these women's roles during the Second World War and novelists followed suit. Some of these novelists had themselves been members of the Resistance while others were too young to have lived during the war. Many women who were resistants joined the Resistance because they felt it was their duty as citizens, not because they wanted to be remembered or praised for their work. Many of these women did not leave memoirs nor talk much about their experiences during the war. Some of the women who lived beyond 1975 were interviewed and their stories were documented. This paper examines the role of women in the French Resistance as seen through the eyes of historians and the roles of women as seen through the eyes of novelists. It illustrates the importance of women in the Resistance. The role of these women was crucial to the survival of thousands of men belonging to the Allied forces. Women in the Resistance carried out the same missions the men did but did not engage in actual battles against the enemy. The paper examines the eventual outcome of these women's roles on post-war French society. Historians arrived at the conclusion that women in the Resistance were no longer to be ignored. The study of the novels begins with a historian's depiction of various female resistants during World War II in France. Max Gallo has written a series of novels which traces the steps of resistant women and their involvement in the Resistance. Being a historian, he carefully documents historical events. What these women have accomplished in the novels is more than what we would have expected of them. One can read this series and view it as a historic document since it follows closely the historic facts that are available today. This paper continues to study the role of resistant women in the works of four more novelists, Michel Jeury, Laurent Joffrin, Rgine Deforges, and Brigitte Friang, who also wrote their novel after the 70's. These young women are depicted as courageous, intelligent, sensitive, and very patriotic. Their bravery and their honesty is a common trait in all of these novels. The jobs they held cover a wide range: secretary, printer, spy, messenger, short wave radio operator, nurse, guide, hostess to soldiers who are in hiding, food provider, provider of clothing and other personal items, sharp shooter, sabotage expert, carrier of arms and ammunition, delivered money, served as mailboxes, liaison agent, driver, coder, and translator. These are the jobs that women actually held during the war. The study then compares the portrait of resistant women in the novel with that of actual witness accounts about women in the Resistance. The similarities are examined while the differences are non existent. All but one of the novels end with the conclusion of the war. In Comme un verger avant l'hiver, the narrator looks back at the resistants' life and analyzes what has occurred in the past and how it affects the present situation. We do not know in the other novels what happens to the characters after the war; therefore, we cannot compare the post-war society in the novels with what we know happened to French society after the war. The conclusion of the paper presents several key issues: the novel as historic document, the jobs women can hold today as a result of women's roles in the Resistance, the growing interest in what women actually did during World War II, the fact that half the world's population is female and should not be ignored in history, and equality among the sexes.
Subject	World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- France France -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945 Women soldiers -- France
Department	Department of Modern Languages
Advisor	Auld, Louis E.
Type	Text
Digital Format	application/pdf
Language	eng
OCLC number	713734995
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