Writing Resistance and the Question of Gender: Charlotte Delbo, Noor Inayat Khan, and Germaine Tilli

1.            Chapter 1 Introduction Writing Resistance and the Question of Gender: Charlotte Delbo, Noor Inayat Khan, And Germaine Tillion

2.            Chapter 2 Charlotte Delbo: Writing the Afterlife

2.1          Writings Informed by Past Experience

2.2          Inscribing the Afterlife

2.3          Configurations of Death, Feminine Links

2.4          Maternal Figures, Transforming Women

2.5          A Spectral Presence and Afterlives of the Deceased

2.6          Idealizing the Post-Internment Future

2.7          Effigies of Men in Literature

2.8          Echoes of Fears and Anxieties

2.9          Encountering Death in Spectres, mes compagnons

2.10        Conclusion

3.            Chapter 3 Noor Inayat Khan: Conceptualizing Resistance During World War II

3.1          A Literary Figure Emerges from the Prewar and Wartime Years

3.2          Creating Images of Resistance in Literature

3.3          Adapting and Blending Traditions of Sufism During Wartime Europe

3.4          Decoding Jakarta Tales in the Context of Resistance

3.5          New Resistance Narratives, Legends of War and Renewal

3.6          Nostalgia and Gendered Performativity

3.7          Princesses of the East: Empowerment, Exile, and Isolation

3.8          Powerful Feminine Voices and the End of an Era

3.9          The Sound of Sufism: Aède of the Ocean and Land: A Play in Seven Acts

3.10        Personal Accounts: Letters from Noor to Azeem

3.11        Conclusion

4.            Chapter 4 Germaine Tillion: Observations of Algeria and Ravensbrück

4.1          Rising to Prominence in the Twenty-First Century

4.2          Representations of Algeria and Ravensbrück

4.3          Creative Adaptation of Ethnological Methodologies

4.4          A Little Night Music: The Ethnographer as Impresario

4.5          A Tripartite Dynamic of Decline

4.6          Verfügbaren Are Born at Ravensbrück

4.7          Uses of Humor at Ravensbrück

4.8          Hierarchical Structures and a 'New Zoological Species'

4.9          Death at Ravensbrück and in Algeria

4.10        A Post-Internment Publication and Revisiting Algeria

4.11        Conclusion

5.            Chapter 5 Conclusion: Women's Reflections on Wartime Experiences

5.1          Three Factors That Made a Field Late in Flourishing

5.3          Prospects for the Future

5.4          Charlotte, Noor, and Germaine: Three Women of Engagement