| FT-53248-05 | Research Programs: Summer Stipends | Charles A. Nunley | Robert Desnos and the Question of Wartime Dissent, 1940-1944 | 8/1/2005 - 10/31/2005 | $5,000.00 | Charles | A. | Nunley | | | | President and Fellows of Middlebury College | Middlebury | VT | 05753-6004 | USA | 2005 | French Literature | Summer Stipends | Research Programs | 5000 | 0 | 5000 | 0 |
Robert Desnos, widely known today for having written some of France's most important Resistance poems under the German Occupation (1940-44), also published a large number of texts under his own name in the German-censored press. My study of these long-neglected works will show the boundary between the clandestine and non-clandestine sphere to be far less stark than typically drawn. Through close readings exploring Desnos's manipulation of the discourses of mediation and power, such a study examines the richly suggestive ways in which Desnos sought to pursue his oppositional project even within the heavily-censored public sphere. |