Les Petites and Die Postkarte
Images of Children in Great War European Postcards
von Emily Durell
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This research explores the defining characteristics of postcards depicting children in German and French contexts during World War I. During this conflict, the postcard became a crucial medium of social wartime communication, boosting morale at home and abroad and bridging the gap between soldiers and civilians. The present study analyzes and compares the themes visually apparent in a sample of privately collected postcards published or mailed during World War I. In doing so, it extracts underlying meanings conveyed through the artwork and posits the ways in which these meanings may have affected those who sent, handled, and received them. World War I postcards depicting children, however kitschy or trivial they may seem to the present-day viewer, reflect competing visions of masculinity, shifting sentiments regarding the institution of the family, tensions between the battlefield and the home front, and anxiety towards the future of the nation. Postcards from both France and Germany indicate a departure from the Western European conceptualization of the child as an occupant of a separate, sacred sphere of society. German postcards reflect these phenomena within the framework of a more conservative, masculinized, authoritarian state. As France faced both demographic decline and invasion, its postcards present messages related to the nation’s precarious future and emphasize the child’s role as both innocent victim and defiant participant in the war.
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Eigenschaften und Details
- Hauptkategorie: Geschichte
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Projektoption: 15×23 cm
Seitenanzahl: 94 -
ISBN
- Softcover: 9780368678745
- Veröffentlichungsdatum: Apr. 26, 2019
- Sprache English
- Schlüsselwörter World War I, children, postcards
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