Pong, B. (2014) La France a l'heure Anglaise: Embodied Timescapes and Occupied Landscapes in Storm Jameson's Cloudless May. Literature and History, 23 (1). pp. 33-48. ISSN 0306-1973
Abstract
The cultural phenomenology of the 1930s and 1940s emphasized British history as the slow accumulation of centuries of civilization, which was about to be swept away by fascism and Nazism. Anxiety about this temporal rupture informs Storm Jameson's Cloudless May, which is set in France on the cusp of the armistice. This article argues that the novel is as much about wartime in France as it is about wartime in Britain. Through affective, embodied timescapes and landscapes, it reaches out to a British readership at a time when the relationship between the two countries was at an uncertain and trying standstill. Portraying an internationalized regional consciousness, Jameson reconciles geopolitical and artistic concerns to fashion together a form of politically-engaged, experimental writing in the late modernism of the Second World War.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2014 Manchester University Press. This is an author produced version of a paper subsequently published in Literature and History. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Storm Jameson; Vichy France; regionalism; World War Two; temporality; film propaganda |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (Sheffield) > School of English (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 02 Nov 2016 09:57 |
Last Modified: | 02 Nov 2016 09:57 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.7227/LH.23.1.3 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.7227/LH.23.1.3 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:106839 |