Memory, Masculinity and National Identity in British Visual Culture, 1914-1930: A Study of 'Unconquerable Manhood'

ISBN-13: 9781138257283 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 232 str.

Gabriel Koureas

Opis

Concentrating on gender and cultural memory, this study investigates the ways in which masculinities and the web of power relations that they entail worked during the interwar years in order to reconstruct the post-First World War British society. It focuses especially on notions of national identity, class and sexuality and their representations in British visual culture in the aftermath of the Great War.

Spis treści

Contents: Chapter One: Ritual, Ceremonial, Order And The Aesthetics Of Simplicity: Defining the Ideal Memorial; Bolshevism and the Returning Ex-Servicemen; Ceremonial, Ritual and Simplicity; Silence; The Cenotaph; Simplicity and Uniformity: The Imperial War Graves. Chapter Two: Class Conflict, The New Man And The Picturesque Soldier: The 1919 NUR Strike; The New Man; The Central Labour College; Banners and Revolution; The London and North Western Railway Memorial; The Picturesque Soldier; Unconquerable manhood; Fear, Attention and Discipline; Silence, Stillness and Discipline. Chapter Three: Abjection, Idealisation, Trauma And Acting Out Of Masculinitites In The Inter-War Years: Controversy: The Man Constructed - The Gun, Gunner and the Ideal Man; The Symbiosis of Gun and Gunner; The Abjected Inside; Trauma and Class; Trauma and Sexuality; Acting Out - The Case of Lieut. Col.; Graham Seton Hutchison; Reconstructing the Man. Chapter Four: Unveiling Polished Guns / Veiling Fragile Masculinities: Establishing the Imperial War Museum; Personal / Public. Collecting Souvenirs for the IWM; Collecting mammals; Collecting , Authenticating, and Containing the Trauma of War; The War Photographic Album; Recycling Guns; Exhibiting Guns; The Memorial to the Fallen; Conclusion. Bibliography. Archival Sources. Newspapers and Periodicals. Primary Sources; Index.

O autorze

Gabriel Koureas is Associate Lecturer at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. His research interests are in the construction of gender and national identities in relation to conflict. He is currently working on the role of visual culture in reconciling ethnic conflict.