Of Heroes, Ghosts, and Witnesses
The Construction of Masculine Identity in the War Poets' Narratives
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12914633 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Cristina Pividori (0000-0003-1281-4792, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 162-178 |
| Publication date | 2014-04-12 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of War and Culture Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1752-6272 • E-ISSN: 1752-6280 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1179/1752627214z.00000000041 |
| OpenAlex | W1992682978 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 22 |
Drawing on some of the autobiographical narratives written by the war poets, this article focuses on the ghost not only as the clearest expression of the myth of the Great War but also as a counter-model undermining traditionally heroic patterns and unmasking certain narratives and identities that had been marginalized, excluded, or repressed. By assessing the ghost as a shadow of the hero, the ghost as a vehicle between life and death and the ghost as haunting memory, it will be possible to contextualize and explore the meanings and experiences of the hero in relation to the antihero, cross over the boundaries between the two and enable a more complex analysis of the real Great War soldier. The article will also study how the memory of war and of war heroisms is rethought and worked over by the veteran as witness and what writing as remembering might entail in terms of the expression of the self in relation to the dominant war myths. Bearing in mind that memory speaks through the texts, sometimes against the writer's will, particular attention will be given to how the reworking of the past shaped heroic masculine identity and to what extent the veteran's identity was determined by what of the war experience he incorporated into the text
Aesthetics · Art · Cultural memory · Expression (computer science · HERO · Identity (music · Literature · Mythology · Narrative · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Relation (database · Shadow (psychology · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · Witness · Anthropology · Gender, Security, and Conflict · History · Law · Military, Security, and Education Studies · Psychology · World Wars: History, Literature, and Impact
The soldiers' tale
Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning
The Image of Man
Trauma
Ghostly Matters
Edward Thomas
Fallen Soldiers
Unclaimed Experience
Shell-shock and the Cultural History of the Great War
Tears, Tantrums, and Bared Teeth
Between Manliness and Masculinity
Social and Symbolic Fathers and Sons in Postwar Britain
Manliness and Masculinities in Nineteenth-Century Britain
The Great War and Modern Memory
Breaking the Conspiracy of Silence
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |