Flemish Nationalism and the Great War: The Politics of Memory, Visual Culture and Commemoration

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Springer, 1 jun 2014 - 320 páginas
Karen Shelby addresses the IJzertoren Memorial, which is dedicated to the Flemish dead of the Great War, and the role the monument has played in the discussions among the various political, social and cultural ideologies of the Flemish community.
 

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1 Introduction
1
The Last Summer Pilgrimage to the IJzer
29
Catholicism Language and the Medieval Past
43
Enlistment Propaganda and the Front Movement
65
5 A Politicized Movement and the Memorialization of the Flemish Soldier
83
A Heldenhuldezerk for all of Flanders
112
Collaboration and the IJzertoren
143
The Pilgrimage to the IJzer
175
A Different Memory of the Great War
208
The IJzertoren Memorial Museum to the Museum aan de IJzer
227
11 Conclusion
254
Appendices
265
Notes
270
Bibliography
302
Index
311
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Karen Shelby is Assistant Professor in the Department of Fine and Performing Arts at Baruch College, The City University of New York, USA. Shelby is an art historian specializing in visual culture and the Great War. Her areas of interest include the commemorative practices after the war, particularly for the Belgian Army, and historical representations of the war in the museums along the Western Front.

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