Language and Revolution: Making Modern Political Identities

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Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2002
Tongue: English
Leaves: 353
Series: Cummings Center Series
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Series-Title......Page 4
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Acknowledgements......Page 9
Introduction......Page 11
1 Liberty and Unanimity: The Paradoxes of Subjectivity and Citizenship in the French Revolution......Page 31
2 The Desacralization of the Monarchy: Rumors and ‘Political Pornography’ during World War I......Page 48
3 Making Cossacks Counter-Revolutionary: The Don Host and the 1918 Anti-Soviet Insurgency......Page 79
4 Modernity and the Poetics of Proletarian Discontent......Page 98
5 Working, Struggling, Becoming: Stalin-Era Autobiographical Texts......Page 124
6 On Being the Subjects of History: Nazis as Twentieth-Century Revolutionaries......Page 147
7 Intimacy in an Ideological Key: The Communist Case of the 1920s and 1930s......Page 167
8 Grigorii Aleksandrov’s Volga-Volga......Page 194
9 The Symphony as Mode of Production; Shostakovich’s Fourth Symphony and the End of the Romantic Narrative......Page 210
10 Regarding the Modern Body: Science, the Social and the Construction of Italian Identities......Page 221
11 Bodies of Knowledge: Physical Culture and the New Soviet Man......Page 238
12 Discourse Made Flesh: Healing and Terror in the Construction of Soviet Subjectivity......Page 253
13 Death in Auschwitz as ‘Ugly Death’......Page 279
14 A French Great Man’s Last Rites: The National Funeral of Léon Gambetta and the Transfer of His Heart to the Panthéon......Page 299
15 Enshrined Oblivion: The POW Memorial Church in Bochum, Germany......Page 319
16 Varieties of Interpretation: The Holocaust in Historical Memory......Page 331
Notes on Contributors......Page 342
Index......Page 345

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