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Hammer and Cycle
This article explores the evolving relationship of the Parti Communiste Français to cycling in the interwar years. It argues that communist press coverage of the sport enriches our understanding of how the Party evolved from a marginal force in the 1920s to a mass party that had forged both an effective and affective bond with large numbers of the French working class. It examines attempts to harness and manipulate working-class enthusiasm for cycling and to project through its coverage of the sport an idealized image of the French worker. Reading sport history into the Party’s political trajectory in the interwar years reveals how the appeal to the emotions was fundamental to its evolving image as a national workers party, but also how the Party had to make accommodations between a Soviet ideal and the realities of French working-class sports culture.
Journal Article
Hammer and Cycle
This article explores the evolving relationship of the Parti Communiste Français to cycling in the interwar years. It argues that communist press coverage of the sport enriches our understanding of how the Party evolved from a marginal force in the 1920s to a mass party that had forged both an effective and affective bond with large numbers of the French working class. It examines attempts to harness and manipulate working-class enthusiasm for cycling and to project through its coverage of the sport an idealized image of the French worker. Reading sport history into the Party’s political trajectory in the interwar years reveals how the appeal to the emotions was fundamental to its evolving image as a national workers party, but also how the Party had to make accommodations between a Soviet ideal and the realities of French working-class sports culture.
Journal Article
Hammer and Cycle
This article explores the evolving relationship of the Parti Communiste Français to cycling in the interwar years. It argues that communist press coverage of the sport enriches our understanding of how the Party evolved from a marginal force in the 1920s to a mass party that had forged both an effective and affective bond with large numbers of the French working class. It examines attempts to harness and manipulate working-class enthusiasm for cycling and to project through its coverage of the sport an idealized image of the French worker. Reading sport history into the Party’s political trajectory in the interwar years reveals how the appeal to the emotions was fundamental to its evolving image as a national workers party, but also how the Party had to make accommodations between a Soviet ideal and the realities of French working-class sports culture.
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The Development of War and Culture Studies in the UK
France provides a particularly complex and fascinating object of analysis for any investigation into the impact of war on modern and contemporary cultural production and cultural history, having been at war for almost fifty years of the twentieth century. This impact is characterised by radically different experiences and memories of the two world wars, and further complicated by enduring legacies of those wars, and of subsequent, brutal colonial wars. An understanding of the impact that the experiences of these different types of war have made on French cultural, social and political identity is essential for the broader analysis of developments
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The Development of War and Culture Studies in the UK
France provides a particularly complex and fascinating object of analysis for any investigation into the impact of war on modern and contemporary cultural production and cultural history, having been at war for almost fifty years of the twentieth century. This impact is characterised by radically different experiences and memories of the two world wars, and further complicated by enduring legacies of those wars, and of subsequent, brutal colonial wars. An understanding of the impact that the experiences of these different types of war have made on French cultural, social and political identity is essential for the broader analysis of developments
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The Development of War and Culture Studies in the UK: From French Studies, Beyond, and Back Again
The place of France and French/Francophone Studies in the development of ‘War and Culture Studies’France provides a particularly complex and fascinating object of analysis for any investigation into the impact of war on modern and contemporary cultural production and cultural history, having been at war for almost fifty years of the twentieth century. This impact is characterised by radically different experiences and memories of the two world wars, and further complicated by enduring legacies of those wars, and of subsequent, brutal colonial wars. An understanding of the impact that the experiences of these different types of war have made on French cultural, social and political identity is essential for the broader analysis of developments in France throughout the twentieth and into the twenty-first centuries, and indeed its role in European and global affairs. The study of France, then, has played a pivotal role in the development of ‘war and culture studies’ in the UK over the last two decades or so for a number of reasons that are explored in this chapter.What do we mean by ‘war and culture studies’? This chapter first considers more generally the ‘cultural turn’ in war studies in recent decades, and then looks specifically at the work of the Group for War and Culture Studies (GWACS) and its contributing scholars in developing a particular approach to the relationship between war and culture during conflict and its aftermath in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Why should the study of war be of such interest to scholars in the humanities and to students and researchers in French and Francophone Studies in particular?Elaine Scarry, in her seminal text The Body in Pain, has demonstrated that the ‘structure of war’ and what she terms ‘the structure of unmaking’ are one subject. It is obvious that war (and, in Scarry's analysis, torture) is an act of destruction and ‘entail[s] the suspension of civilization’ (and are somehow the opposite of that civilisation); less obvious is that:They [war and torture] are in the most literal and concrete way possible, an appropriation, aping and reversing of the action of creation itself.
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Forming the modern mind: a reappraisal of the french combat novel of world war one
Many have considered the French combat novel as a genre apart, limited to its moment of production, or as the continuation of late nineteenth-century systems of thought. In this way, the anti-war novel's depiction of the horrors of combat are readily associated by some with the Naturalist novel, while the works of many nationalist combat novelists are considered, both in respect of their style and ideology, to be much in the tradition of the works of Maurice Barrès. By contrast, this thesis considers the combat novel to be a defining moment in the development of the early twentieth-century French novel.Examining the genre in Bakhtinian terms of novelistic development, it acknowledges the genre's continued ties with pre-war thinking, but also those that link the genre to the committed and existential novels of the inter-war years and, more generally, to a primarily modernist understanding of humanity's place in the world. This thesis considers the combat novel as a bridge between the essentialist universe of the late nineteenth century and the existential perceptions that characterise the early twentieth century, embodying in its polemic, whether nationalist or pacifist, a response to the absurd. In this perception of the absurd, and in its recourse to political commitment in order to offset this perception, the genre possesses a paradigmatic significance for the committed novel of the 1930s and 1940s where engagement with the world counters a widespread sense of humanity's contingency in relation to the world.
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