Women Authors from the Great War, NeMLA in Hartford, CT 3/17-3/20
The last 30 years has seen an increase of scholarship on women writers from WWI, but these texts are still not part of the mainstream canon of war literature. A recent film adaptation of Vera Brittain's Testament of Youth has spiked some interest in women's role, but that film offers only a small glimpse of women's roles. This panel asks the following questions:
What new perspectives can these texts (whatever the genre) add to our understanding of World War I?
How did women's roles in the war change their perspective of the world?
What, if any, impact did their participation play within the feminist movement?