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Literature and Justice in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain: Crimes and War Crimes

Literature and Justice in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain: Crimes and War Crimes

Stewart, Victoria

Hardcover

Series: Oxford Mid-Century Studies

Literary CriticismBritish HistoryHolocaust

ISBN10: 0192858238
ISBN13: 9780192858238
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Apr 19 2023
Pages: 226
Weight: 0.85
Height: 1.20 Width: 5.70 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
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.

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