The men with broken faces [Elektronisk resurs] gueules cassées of the First World War / Marjorie Gehrhardt.

• Introduction: Gueules cassées : the face of war -- Part I. The soldiers' journey : from the front to civilian life -- Hospitals as transitional spaces -- Facing the world : economic and social reintegration -- Shaping a collective identity -- Part II. Artistic and literary representations -- Visual depictions of facially injured men -- Describing the "unspeakable"? : gueules cassées in literature.

• "Perhaps the ultimate victims of the Great War, facially wounded servicemen became walking reminders of the conflict and their experiences reveal the impact of the war not only on the combatants but also on European societies at large. This book explores for the first time the individual and collective significance of First World War facially disfigured combatants, with a special focus on France, Germany and Great Britain. The analysis undertaken in this book uncovers how the wounded perceived and presented themselves and were perceived and represented by others. Artistic and literary representations are considered, along with initiatives on behalf of hospitals, the government and their fellow countrymen. With an interdisciplinary and comparative approach, this study illuminates our understanding of how the combatant and the onlooker made sense of the experience and the memory of the war"--Provided by publisher. 

Ämnesord

Ansikte  (sao)

Sår och skador  (sao)

Krigsskador  (sao)

Andra världskriget 1939-1945  (sao)

Krigsveteraner  (sao)

Grymheter  (sao)

Wounds and injuries in art.  (LCSH)

Wounds and injuries in literature.  (LCSH)

World War, 1914-1918  -- Social aspects -- Europe. (LCSH)

Soldiers  -- Europe -- History -- 20th century. (LCSH)

Veterans  -- Europe -- History -- 20th century. (LCSH)

Disfigured persons  -- Europe -- History -- 20th century. (LCSH)

Face  -- Wounds and injuries -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History -- 20th century. (LCSH)

Body image  -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History -- 20th century. (LCSH)

Hospital care  -- Europe -- History -- 20th century. (LCSH)

War and society  -- Europe -- History -- 20th century. (LCSH)

War wounds  (LCSH)

World War, 1939-1945  (LCSH)

Face  (LCSH)

Wounds and injuries  (LCSH)

Atrocities  (LCSH)

Veterans  (LCSH)

Genre

Electronic books. 

Klassifikation

D524.7.E85 (LCC)

940.40087 (DDC)

K.51b (kssb/8 (machine generated))