The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Modern Mourning, and the Reinvention of the Mystical Body (Toronto Italian Studies)

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The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Modern Mourning, and the Reinvention of the Mystical Body (Toronto Italian Studies)

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  • 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 464 p.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9781442643390
  • DDC分類 355.16

Full Description

At the end of the First World War, countries across Europe participated in an unprecedented ritual in which a single, anonymous body was buried to symbolize the overwhelming trauma of the battlefields. The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier explores the creation and reception of this symbolic national burial as an emblem for modern mourning.

Bringing together literature, newspaper accounts, wartime correspondence, and popular culture, The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier examines how the Unknown Soldier was imagined in diverse national contexts and used by radically opposed political parties. Laura Wittman argues that this monument established a connection between the wounded body vulnerable to the war machine and a modern identity defined by common mortality and social alienation. Highly original and interdisciplinary, The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier powerfully links the symbolic language and ethics of mourning to a fascinating national ritual.

Contents

Introduction

PART ONE: Anonymity and Sacrifice



Introduction: The Return of the Dead

A Unanimous Idea
Unanimity and confused bones
The origins of the Unknown Soldier
The primal scene


Identification and Chorality

Bones manifest themselves
Recognition, or reaching across the divide of living and dead
Sculpted water
A silent inscription


Sacrifice and the non finito

Taking up anonymity
Absolution
Initiation



PART TWO: Embodiment and Spectacle



Introduction: The Undead Body, The Photographic Image, and the Religious Icon

Embodiment and Imbestiamento
Trauma and animality
The symbolic journey
The darkness within


Mutilation and Spectacle

Phantom pain, mutilation, and repetition
Touching the absent body: the "Banner of Randaccio"
Transmitting the experience of death: Promethean fire


Mourning Transcendence and Reenchanting the Flesh

Confronting Mortality
Mourning Transcendence
Modernity and the Mystical Body



Conclusion

Bibliography

Notes

Illustrations