World War I, Mass Death, and the Birth of the Modern US Soldier

A Rhetorical History

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

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World War I, Mass Death, and the Birth of the Modern US Soldier: A Rhetorical History examines the United States government’s postwar ideological and rhetorical project in establishing permanent national military cemeteries abroad. Constructed throughout Europe where citizen-soldiers had fought and perished, and sacralized as American sites, these burial grounds simultaneously linked the nation’s war dead back to American soil and the national purpose rooted there, expressed the nation’s emerging prominent role on the world’s stage, and advanced the burgeoning icon of the “sacrificial, universal” US soldier. It draws upon untapped archival and historical materials from the WWI and interwar periods, as well as original on-site research, to show how the cemeteries came to display and advance the vision of the modern US soldier as “a global force for good.” Ultimately, within the visual display of overseas cemeteries we can detect the birth of “the modern US soldier”—a potent icon in which divergent emotions, memories, beliefs, and arguments of Americans and non-Americans have been expressed for a century.

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Utgivningsdatum2020-09-29
Mått152 x 232 x 21 mm
Vikt544 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieBloomsbury Studies in Contemporary Rhetoric
Antal sidor342
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781498546898

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AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter One. The “Uncensored” View from Afar: American Perceptions of the Great War, 1914–1917Chapter Two. “Body and Soul and Spirit”: Mobilization, Conscription, and Mass Death, 1917–1918Chapter Three. A Crisis of Speech: Addressing Mass Death and the Trauma of War, 1918–1922Chapter Four. Why They Died: Public Memory and the Birth of the Modern U.S. Soldier, 1922–1933ConclusionIndexAbout the Author

David Seitz’s World War I, Mass Death, and the Birth of the Modern US Soldier: A Rhetorical History vividly demonstrates how a multiplicity of discourses intersect in the moment when a public memory takes shape. Marshalling the forces of historiography, textual analysis, visual rhetoric, and ethnography, Seitz’s genealogical exploration adroitly explores how the ideograph of “the US soldier as a global force for good” emerged from the material and rhetorical battlefields of World War I. His analysis illustrates how such a transformative ideograph is at once the production of historical forces, governmental rhetoric, and vernacular responses to efforts to shape the understanding of an historical moment.