Women's Fiction of the Second World War: Gender, Power and Resistance

Comparative Literature, Spring 1998 by Harlow, Barbara

War stories-or stories written in wartime? If World War II provides but the background-albeit decisive-to these works of women writers, its history is similarly only implicit in their analysis. The context, that is, must still be brought out. But as Plain argues forcefully throughout her study, it is just that "all the texts are war stories waiting to be decoded."

BARBARA HARION

University of Texas, Austin