The Construction of Memory in Interwar FranceUniversity of Chicago Press, 1999 - 414 من الصفحات One of the bloodiest conflicts in human history, World War I devastated France, leaving behind battlefields littered with the remains of the dead. Daniel Sherman takes a close look at the human impact of this Great War by examining the ways in which the French remembered their veterans and war dead after the armistice. Arguing that memory is more than just a record of experience, Sherman's cultural history offers a radically new perspective on how commemoration of WWI helped to shape postwar French society and politics. Sherman shows how a wartime visual culture saturated with images of ordinary foot soldiers, together with contemporary novels, memoirs, and tourist literature, promoted a distinctive notion of combat experience. The contrast between battlefield and home front, soldier and civilian was the basis for memory and collective gratitude. Postwar commemoration, however, also grew directly out of the long and agonized search for the remains of hundreds of thousands of missing soldiers, and the sometimes contentious debates over where to bury them. For this reason, the local monument, with its inscribed list of names and its functional resemblance to tombstones, emerged as the focal point of commemorative practice. Sherman traces every step in the process of monument building as he analyzes commemoration's competing goals—to pay tribute to the dead, to console the bereaved, and to incorporate mourners' individual memories into a larger political discourse. Extensively illustrated, Sherman's study offers a visual record of a remarkable moment in the history of public art. It is at once a moving account of a culture haunted by war and a sophisticated analysis of the political stakes of memory in the twentieth century. Winner of the 2000 J. Russell Major Prize of the American Historical Association |
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Abbreviations ix | 1 |
FOUR | 137 |
FIVE | 215 |
Patterns of Ceremony 265 The Dead and the Living | 281 |
Epilogue | 311 |
407 | |
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April artistic August Author Bar-le-Duc battlefield Bernier BODIES AND NAMES cantonal seat cemetery Chouzy-sur-Cisse civilians CM/D collective commemoration Commercy construction CONTESTED SPACES critical cultural dead December dedication ceremonies discourse enfants Étain example EXPERIENCE AND MEMORY families fête FIGURE Fleury-devant-Douaumont France French gender Genevoix groups guerre Ibid images Inauguration individual Jean-Jacques Becker July June L'art funéraire L'avenir L'illustration L'inauguration du monument Lacroix-sur-Meuse Locminé Loir-et-Cher Lorette Lorient Marne mémoire Mémorial ment Meuse Michelin Michelin guides monu monument aux morts Morbihan mourning narrative newspaper Norton Cru NOTES TO PAGES November October offered official ossuary Paris Péronne Photo plaque Ploërmel ploërmelais poilu political Pontivy poster postwar prefect prefect to mayor Prost républicain ritual Romorantin sacrifice Salbris Salon sculpture Selles-sur-Cher September SIGNIFIED soldiers Sologne speech subprefect subscription symbol Témoins tion tourist town council tribute ument union sacrée Vannes Verdun veterans