Warland Experience and Memory of the First World War in Belgium

Comparative and Interdisciplinary Insights
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-3-8309-8855-7
Verlag: Waxmann Verlag GmbH
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 228 Seiten

Due to its unprecedented violence and unexpected duration, the First World War generated many complex and tragic experiences, which over time have been reinterpreted. Connecting past experiences with current memories of the war - in order to revisit in an interdisciplinary way Belgium's archival and literary, as well as material and monumental war heritage - is the goal of this book which presents the outcomes of the research project Experiences and Memories of the Great War in Belgium (MEMEX WW1).
The following topics as part of the historical, psychological and memory studies are addressed: emotions and writing strategies in a war context and attitudes towards the Germans based on the diaries of Belgian soldiers and scholars; the memory of the war in the two fort cities of Antwerp and Liege during the Interbellum; the literary reception of Tom Lanoye's No Man's Land and the impact of the reading of some poems to current Flemish students. Another issue concerning the social representations of the war investigates the representations of soldiers as heroes or as victims among young Europeans. As for the impact of war centenary commemoration events, they are analyzed firstly through the iconology of the First World War illustrated on stamps and secondly through the effects of exhibitions and documentaries on young Belgians.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Warland, Geneviève

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Imprint and Contents;4
2;‘The Great War as Cultural Heritage’. Preface (Annette Becker);7
3;Experience and Memory of the First World War in Belgium: Comparative and Interdisciplinary Insights. Preface by the Editors of “Historische Belgienforschung”;9
4;Introduction. Emotion, Experience, Memory (Geneviève Warland);11
4.1;1Yet another book on the First World War?;11
4.2;2The Memex WWI project;12
4.3;3An interdisciplinary project;13
4.4;4Insight into the book chapters;15
4.5;5 Emotion, experience, attitude, representation and memory as keywords;18
4.6;References;19
5;Fighting and Writing. The Psychological Functions of Diary Writing in the First World War (Rose Spijkerman, Olivier Luminet & Antoon Vrints);23
5.1;1 Introduction;23
5.2;2Diaries in psychology: functions and effects;25
5.3;3Objectives and protagonists;27
5.4;4Detachment and avoidance;30
5.5;5Confronting;31
5.6;6Emotion regulation;34
5.7;7Structuring time and place;38
5.8;8Conclusion;40
5.9;References;41
6;Nil inultum remanebit?: Germany in the War Diaries of the Historians Paul Fredericq and Henri Pirenne (Geneviève Warland & Olivier Luminet);45
6.1;1Belgian scholars’ attitude in the First World War’s aftermath;45
6.2;2Belgian scholars’ war experience:Paul Fredericq and Henri Pirenne’s war diaries;47
6.3;3The Germans in occupied Belgium:anger, sadness and coping strategies;51
6.4;4An honor code: avoiding contact with Germans;56
6.5;5Disappointment towards German scholars;58
6.6;6Fredericq and Pirenne’s deportation to Germany:the war camps and the university city of Jena;62
6.7;7 Pirenne and Fredericq among the Germans:the provincial cities of Bürgel and Creuzburg;66
6.8;8The return to Belgium and the First World War’s aftermath;70
6.9;9Conclusion: diary writing, emotion regulation and cultural mobilization against the Germans;73
6.10;Unpublished Sources;74
6.11;References;74
7;War, Narratives and Memory: The Defence and Fall of the Belgian Fort Cities in the Cultural Memory of the First World War (Myrthel Van Etterbeeck & Karla Vanraepenbusch);81
7.1;1Introduction;81
7.2;2Wartime events and experiences;84
7.3;3Narratives mediated during the war;85
7.4;4Cultural memory: literature;88
7.5;5Cultural memory: memorials and street names;97
7.6;6Conclusion;107
7.7;References;108
7.8;Annex 1;113
8;Dulce et decorum est: Reading First World War Poetry (Elke Brems, Reine Meylaerts, Pierre Bouchat & Olivier Klein);115
8.1;1 Introduction;115
8.2;2The translator;117
8.3;3The critics;119
8.4;4The students;122
8.5;5Conclusion;131
8.6;References;132
8.7;In Flanders Fields;134
8.8;In Vlaamse velden;135
8.9;Counter-Attack;136
8.10;Tegenaanval;137
9;Retelling the War to Give a Chance to Peace. A Comparative Analysis of Great War Memories (Valérie Rosoux, Pierre Bouchat & Olivier Klein);139
9.1;1Introduction;139
9.2;2Telling the past in another way;141
9.3;3Survey on the representations of the Great War;144
9.4;4Empirical evidences;145
9.5;5Analysis: Divergent or incompatible memories?;151
9.6;6Conclusion;159
9.7;References;162
10;The Commemorations of the First World War as Seen through Postage Stamps (Chantal Kesteloot & Laurence van Ypersele);167
10.1;1Introduction;167
10.2;2The first stamps;169
10.3;3Who decides?;169
10.4;4Stamps in wartime;170
10.5;5The post-war period: an immediate turnto a commemorative perspective;175
10.6;6The permanence of the Soldier-King;186
10.7;7Forgetting the Great War;189
10.8;8 The ever-present Great War (2008–2018);190
10.9;9Conclusion;192
10.10;References;195
11;The Paradoxical Impacts of the Commemorations of the Great War in Belgium (Pierre Bouchat, Olivier Klein & Valérie Rosoux);197
11.1;1Introduction;197
11.2;2Commemorations and persuasion;198
11.3;3Exhibitions;201
11.4;4Documentaries;208
11.5;5General discussion;212
11.6;6Conclusion;214
11.7;References;215
12;Conclusions. Traces of Wartime Emotions in our Collective Memory (Bernard Rimé);219
12.1;Traces of Wartime Emotions in our Collective Memory;219
12.2;1Interdisciplinary research with a panoramic view;219
12.3;2Written traces from diaries or poems;221
12.4;3Traces in streets, on walls and on envelopes;222
12.5;4Vivid traces from younger generations;223
12.6;5Final word;224
13;Authors;225