Language and revolution : making of modern political identities / edited by Igal Halfin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Halfin, Igal.

Series:

Cummings Center series ; 16.

The Cummings Center series, 1365-3733 ; 16

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and languages--Political aspects.

Language and languages.

Revolutionaries--Europe--History--20th century.

Revolutionaries.

Nationalism--Europe--History--20th century.

Nationalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (353 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; Portland, OR : F. Cass, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This work examines the role of language in forging the modern subject. Focusing on the idea of the ""New Man"" that has animated all revolutionaries, the present volume asks what it meant to define oneself in terms of one's class origins, gender, national belonging or racial origins.

Contents:

Book Cover; Half-Title; Series-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Liberty and Unanimity: The Paradoxes of Subjectivity and Citizenship in the French Revolution; 2 The Desacralization of the Monarchy: Rumors and 'Political Pornography' during World War I; 3 Making Cossacks Counter-Revolutionary: The Don Host and the 1918 Anti-Soviet Insurgency; 4 Modernity and the Poetics of Proletarian Discontent; 5 Working, Struggling, Becoming: Stalin-Era Autobiographical Texts; 6 On Being the Subjects of History: Nazis as Twentieth-Century Revolutionaries

7 Intimacy in an Ideological Key: The Communist Case of the 1920s and 1930s8 Grigorii Aleksandrov's Volga-Volga; 9 The Symphony as Mode of Production; Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony and the End of the Romantic Narrative; 10 Regarding the Modern Body: Science, the Social and the Construction of Italian Identities; 11 Bodies of Knowledge: Physical Culture and the New Soviet Man; 12 Discourse Made Flesh: Healing and Terror in the Construction of Soviet Subjectivity; 13 Death in Auschwitz as 'Ugly Death'

14 A French Great Man's Last Rites: The National Funeral of Léon Gambetta and the Transfer of His Heart to the Panthéon15 Enshrined Oblivion: The POW Memorial Church in Bochum, Germany; 16 Varieties of Interpretation: The Holocaust in Historical Memory; Notes on Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-135-77463-3

0-203-60746-5

1-135-77464-1

1-280-30939-3

9786610309399

0-203-50574-3

9780203505748

OCLC:

437062467