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The Construction of Memory in Interwar France (Paperback, 2nd Ed.)
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The Construction of Memory in Interwar France (Paperback, 2nd Ed.)
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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 thepolitical stakes of memory in the twentieth century.
Winner of the 2000 J. Russell Major Prize of the American
Historical Association
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