Mood of the Material: War Memory and Imagining Otherwise

被引：11
作者：
Blair, Carole [1 ]
Balthrop, V. William [1 ]
Michel, Neil [2 ]
机构：
[1] Univ N Carolina, Dept Commun Studies, CB 3285,115 Bingham Hall, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 USA
[2] Axiom Photo Design, Davis, CA USA
来源：
CULTURAL STUDIES-CRITICAL METHODOLOGIES | 2013年 / 13卷 / 01期
关键词：
Fleury-devant-Douaumont; memory; mood; sanitizing war; Verdun; World War I;
D O I：
10.1177/1532708612464632
中图分类号：
G [文化、科学、教育、体育]; C [社会科学总论];
学科分类号：
03 ; 0303 ; 04 ;
摘要：
This essay explores the commemorative site of Fleury-devant-Douaumont (Fleury), a village destroyed during the battle of Verdun in 1916. We argue that Fleury offers a creative rhetoric of imagining otherwise by rendering a doubled demand on the imagination. It provokes visitors to attend to the fact of war's overwhelming destructiveness. And simultaneously, it urges them to imagine the counterfactual, the "not having happened"-Fleury as a tiny and vibrant community as it would have been in the absence of war. In doing so, Fleury's rhetoric opposes itself to a stance that sanitizes, justifies, or glorifies war.
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