@article {Conde:1 January 2001:0306-2473:168, author = "Conde M.", title = "Mavis Gallant and the Politics of Cruelty", journal = "The Yearbook of English Studies", volume = "31", year = "1 January 2001", abstract = "

Mavis Gallant is a writer with a very strong sense of the dangers of fascism. A Canadian who has lived permanently in Paris since 1975, she has in her journalism been constantly alert to French anti-Semitism. In ‘Malcolm and Bea’ she investigates the horrifying possibilities of human behaviour through the crude and self-pitying appropriation of the word ‘Pichipoi’, a term coined by Jewish children awaiting deportation, by an expatriate Canadian. In ‘In the Tunnel’ the focus of her narrative of cruelty and exploitation is a painting of Judas in an abandoned chapel in the South of France.

", pages = "168-181(14)", url = "http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/mhra/yes/2001/00000031/00000001/0015" }