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The Family at War in French Culture, 1870-1914

Descrizione del progetto

Ricordare la «guerra dimenticata»

La guerra franco-prussiana rappresenta un momento traumatico nella storia della Francia e un periodo importante che ha segnato la formazione dell’Europa moderna. Combattuta sul suolo francese, la guerra ha provocato profondi cambiamenti politici e sociali. Tuttavia, mentre la prima guerra mondiale viene studiata approfonditamente, questa guerra, avvenuta nel biennio 1870-1871, è descritta come la «guerra dimenticata». Il progetto FAMWAR, finanziato dall’UE, concentrerà la sua attenzione sull’esperienza traumatica della guerra per le famiglie e sugli effetti da essa esercitata in relazione alle separazioni di massa e ai rapporti di genere. Svolgerà degli approfondimenti sul modo in cui l’esperienza delle famiglie di questa guerra sia stata rappresentata nella produzione culturale del periodo compreso tra il 1870-1871 e la prima guerra mondiale.

Obiettivo

"FAMWAR investigates how the familial experience of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71 was represented in the cultural production of the first four and a half decades of the Third Republic. The years 2014-18 have seen a vast reflection on the European experience of the First World War. One of the most successful aspects of this has been the way more traditional military and diplomatic history has dovetailed with the modern concerns of cultural, social and gender history. It is the aim of FAMWAR to apply these insights to what might be termed ""the war before the First World War"", namely the Franco-Prussian War. Fought almost exclusively on French soil, the war was a traumatic experience for France, not just politically (with the fall of Napoleon III's Second Empire; the birth of the Third Republic in September 1870, which would last until the Second World War; and the civil war of the Paris Commune in 1871), but also socially (in the two sieges of Paris, and in the battlefield experience and its effects on the provincial population). Wars, we know from the twentieth-century experience of two world wars, involve on all sides the mass separation, damage and reconfiguration of families; and in particular, the shifting of gender relations in and beyond the family. It is precisely the intensity of the twentieth-century European experience of war which has turned 1870-71 into what has been called ""the forgotten war"". Yet 1870-71 represents a key foundational moment in the invention of modern Europe (when France finally embraced republicanism for good, and Germany was born as a nation-state). How, we shall ask, was the family's experience of this war remembered in literature, journalism and iconography? It is the aim of the current project to correct that oversight, not least as the 150th anniversary of the war approaches, and not least because it is the experience of the Franco-Prussian War which French and German people carried, within living memory, into war in 1914."

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Coordinatore

THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
Contribution nette de l'UE
€ 212 933,76
Indirizzo
TRINITY LANE THE OLD SCHOOLS
CB2 1TN Cambridge
Regno Unito

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Regione
East of England East Anglia Cambridgeshire CC
Tipo di attività
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
Collegamenti
Costo totale
€ 212 933,76