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Propaganda, Masculinity and the French Interwar Novel.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Propaganda, Masculinity and the French Interwar Novel./
作者:	Webster, Courtney L.
出版者:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2021,
面頁冊數:	168 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-07, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International83-07A.
標題:	French literature. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=28493529
ISBN:	9798762185981

Propaganda, Masculinity and the French Interwar Novel.
Webster, Courtney L.

Propaganda, Masculinity and the French Interwar Novel. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2021 - 168 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-07, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Missouri - Columbia, 2021.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

My dissertation centers on literary representations of non-normative gender performances, the struggle around new gender norms, and the lived realities of gender in pre- and post-World War I (WWI) era France. The novels discussed in this study, L'Immoraliste (Andre Gide, 1902), Cheri and La Fin de Cheri (Colette, 1920 and 1926), and Voyage au bout de la Nuit (Celine, 1932) all depict how WWI disrupted French life at every level, and how the needs of and anxieties created by the war troubled gender roles in nearly all environments. The novels that I analyze reveal, in particular, how the very nature of the French man became a source of nationalist anxiety in this era, as masculinity was seen as fragile and weakened by prior French military defeats and by what were seen as the excesses of the belle epoque. In response, the government and other social institutions heavily promoted standards of French masculinity that were heteronormative and represented the ideal of the French male as physically powerful, courageous, and ready to defend family and nation. As France's only citizens and eligible soldiers, French men were expected to carry the weight of defending the nation, with their success or failure determining the future of French masculinity and the health of the French population more broadly. My dissertation takes an interdisciplinary approach to the analysis of the struggles around gender in the WWI and interwar eras. I supplement my analysis of literature with discussions of the visual culture of the period, in particular product advertising and government-sponsored propaganda posters. I show how the latter allowed little room for alterity in gendered performances. The propaganda poster used the methods of product advertising to promote a normative gender agenda, and especially ideal images of war-time masculinity. My study thus shows how certain novels of the period stand in opposition to the state-sponsored propaganda represented in posters, by allowing for alternative gender performances and by calling into question WWI propagandized gender norms. Novels by Colette, Gide, and Celine not only counter the messages of state-sponsored propaganda but create spaces for self-determined gender performances. Further, while calling into question normative masculinity, as I show, these authors also question traditional ideas of gender=sex. My dissertation thus argues that novels by Gide, Colette, Celine and others demonstrate that the normative standards encountered in WWI propaganda were, in fact, fictions that belied the lived realities of gender.

ISBN: 9798762185981Subjects--Topical Terms:

644020
French literature.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Femininity

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