Package 2 (Volumes C+D+E) Volume E by Nina Baym

Package 2 (Volumes C+D+E) Volume E by Nina Baym

In Nazi-occupied France in 1941, four-year-old Ruth Kapp learns that it is dangerous to use her own name. Remember, her older cousin Jeannette warns her, your name is Renee and you are French!
A deeply personal book, this true story recounts the chilling experiences of a young Jewish girl during the Holocaust. The Kapp family flees one home after another, helped by simple, ordinary people from the French countryside who risk their lives to protect them. Eventually the family is forced to separate, and young Ruth survives the war in an orphanage where she is not allowed to see or even mention her parents. Without the trappings of lofty language or the faceless perspective of history, this first-person account poignantly recreates the terror of war seen through the eyes of an innocent child. Your Name Is Renee is a tale of suffering and redemption, fear and hope, which is bound to stir even the most hardened heart.

Nina Baym (Ph.D. Harvard) is Swanlund Endowed Chair and Center for Advanced Study Professor Emerita of English and Jubilee Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of The Shape of Hawthorne’s Career; Woman’s Fiction: A Guide to Novels by and About Women in America, 1820–1870; Novels, Readers, and Reviewers: Responses to Fiction in Antebellum America; American Women Writers and the Work of History, 1790–1860; American Women of Letters and the Nineteenth-Century Sciences and most recently, Women Writers of the American West, 1833–1927. Some of her essays are collected in Feminism and American Literary History; she has also edited and introduced many reissues of work by earlier American women writers, from Judith Sargent Murray through Kate Chopin. In 2000 she received the MLA’s Hubbell Medal for lifetime achievement in American literary studies.

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ISBN 13	9780393979015
ISBN 10	0393979016
Title	Package 2 (Volumes C+D+E) Volume E
Author	Nina Baym
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	WW Norton & Co
Year published	2002-07-12
Number of pages	1100
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.