TY  - GEN
T1  - The embattled self : French soldiers' testimony of the Great War
A1  - Smith, Leonard V., 1957-
LA  - English
PP  - Ithaca, New York
PB  - Cornell University Press
YR  - 2007
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn889302457
AB  - How did the soldiers in the trenches of the Great War understand and explain battlefield experience, and themselves through that experience? Situated at the intersection of military history and cultural history, The embattled self draws on the testimony of French combatants to explore how combatants came to terms with the war. In order to do so, they used a variety of narrative tools at hand-- rites of passage, mastery, a character of the soldier as a consenting citizen of the Republic. None of the resulting versions of the story provided a completely consistent narrative, and all raised more questions about the "truth" of experience than they answered. In thematic chapters, Smith explains why the novel structured by a specific notion of trauma prevailed by the 1930s and undermines the conventional understanding of the war as tragedy and its soldiers as victims, a view that has dominated both scholarly and popular opinion since the interwar period
OP  - 229
CN  - D640.A2 .S55 2007eb
SN  - 9780801471216
SN  - 0801471214
SN  - 0801471206
SN  - 9780801471209
SN  - 1322523037
SN  - 9781322523033
SN  - 9780801479564
SN  - 0801479568
SN  - 9780801445231
SN  - 080144523X
KW  - World War, 1914-1918 : Personal narratives, French.
KW  - World War, 1914-1918 : Literature and the war.
KW  - HISTORY : Europe : Western.
KW  - HISTORY : Europe : France.
KW  - War and literature
KW  - Französisch
KW  - Kriegsroman
KW  - Soldat
KW  - Weltkrieg : 1914-1918
KW  - Erster Weltkrieg : Motiv
KW  - Frankreich
KW  - Eerste Wereldoorlog.
KW  - Soldaten.
KW  - Literatuur (fictie en non-fictie)
KW  - Oorlogsromans.
KW  - Frankrijk.
KW  - Första världskriget 1914-1918 i litteraturen.
KW  - Första världskriget 1914-1918 : franska personliga berättelser.
KW  - Französisch.
KW  - 1914-1918
KW  - Personal narratives : French
KW  - Personal narratives
KW  - Personal narratives.
KW  - Récits personnels.
ER  -