Images of Switzerland: Challenges from the Margins

by Joy Charnley (Editor)

Images of Challenges from the Margins , appearing at a time when Swiss identity is under severe pressure, deals with perceptions of Switzerland held by a variety of minority groups. A historical review of attitudes to Jews prior to World War Two precedes chronologically essays on recent perceptions of marginalisation in literature written by women, manifestations of the Fremdarbeiter in German-Swiss literature, the outsider in the work of Lukas Hartmann and socially disadvantaged figures in recent Italian-Swiss writing.

128 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 1999

About the author

Dr. Joy Charnley is Lecturer in French at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. She has co-edited several books on Swiss literature, including "Twenty-Five Years of Emancipation? Women in Switzerland 1971-1996," published in 1998. She had edited five volumes of the Occasional Papers in Swiss Studies (1998-2003). She has published on Yvette Z’Graggen, Alice Rivaz, Anne-Lise Grobéty, and Anne Cuneo.