TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gehrhardt,Marjorie
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - The men with broken faces: gueules cassacuteees of the First World War 
T2  - Cultural history and literary imagination,
SN  - 9783034318693 (alkaline paper)
AV  - D524.7.E85 G44 2015eb
U1  - 940.40087 23
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Peter Lang
KW  - World War, 1914-1918
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Europe
KW  - Soldiers
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Veterans
KW  - Disfigured persons
KW  - Face
KW  - Wounds and injuries
KW  - Body image
KW  - Hospital care
KW  - War and society
KW  - Wounds and injuries in art
KW  - Wounds and injuries in literature
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: Gueules cassacuteees : the face of war -- Part I. The soldiers' journey : from the front to civilian life -- Hospitals as transitional spaces -- Facing the world : economic and social reintegration -- Shaping a collective identity -- Part II. Artistic and literary representations -- Visual depictions of facially injured men -- Describing the "unspeakable"? : gueules cassacuteees in literature
N2  - "Perhaps the ultimate victims of the Great War, facially wounded servicemen became walking reminders of the conflict and their experiences reveal the impact of the war not only on the combatants but also on European societies at large. This book explores for the first time the individual and collective significance of First World War facially disfigured combatants, with a special focus on France, Germany and Great Britain. The analysis undertaken in this book uncovers how the wounded perceived and presented themselves and were perceived and represented by others. Artistic and literary representations are considered, along with initiatives on behalf of hospitals, the government and their fellow countrymen. With an interdisciplinary and comparative approach, this study illuminates our understanding of how the combatant and the onlooker made sense of the experience and the memory of the war"--Provided by publisher
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