War Trauma in the Construction of American Lost-war Culture: From WWI to Vietnam and the Present

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dc.contributorHoly Cross Collegeen
dc.contributor.authorLembcke, Jerryen
dc.coverage.spatialUnited Statesen
dc.coverage.spatialGermanyen
dc.coverage.spatialEuropeen
dc.coverage.temporalEarly 20th centuryen
dc.coverage.temporal1914-1918en
dc.coverage.temporal1939-1945en
dc.coverage.temporalMid-20th centuryen
dc.date.accessioned2016-09-13T03:30:23Zen
dc.date.available2016-09-13T03:30:23Zen
dc.date.issued2015-11en
dc.description.abstractThe war veteran suffering Shell Shock is one of the most enduring images of twentieth century war. Among 21st century media pundits and even some medical professionals, however, few are aware that Shell Shock was largely discredited after WWI, its diagnostic significance overshadowed by its cultural and political meanings. Even fewer observers are aware that Shell Shock played out in inter-war Germany as a metaphor for a nation traumatized by war whose defeat and hurt could only be avenged through more war. This paper will reprise in greater detail this biography of war trauma with attention to: a) The way art, news media, and other cultural forms played into the construction of Shell Shock; b) The Freudian intervention in the matter of traumatized WWI veterans; c) the way filmic representations of veterans intensified the political sentiments of inter-war Germany. The paper will then extend the trajectory of war trauma biography into and beyond the Vietnam War era to show its agency in the construction of a victim-veteran imagery via PTSD and TBI that abets an American lost-war narrative eerily similar to that which remilitarized Germany after the First World War.en
dc.description.notesPresented at Race and/or Reconciliation, the Third Conference on Veterans in Society, which took place in Roanoke, VA from November 12-14, 2015.en
dc.description.notesConference hosted by the Center for the Study of Rhetoric in Society, Department of English http://www.rhetoric.english.vt.edu/en
dc.format.extent12 pagesen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifierLembcke_War_Trauma_in_the_Construction_of_American_Lost_war_Culture.pdfen
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/72933en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.relation.ispartofRace and/or Reconciliation, the Third Conference on Veterans in Societyen
dc.relation.urihttp://veteransinsociety.wordpress.com/en
dc.relation.urihttp://www.rhetoric.english.vt.edu/en
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.holderLembcke, Jerryen
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectWar-traumaen
dc.subjectShell shocken
dc.subjectBetrayal in waren
dc.subjectGerman revanchismen
dc.subjectVictimveteran imageryen
dc.subjectPTSDen
dc.subjectPost-traumatic stress disorderen
dc.subjectViSen
dc.subjectVeterans in Societyen
dc.subjectRace and/or Reconciliation, the Third Conference on Veterans in Societyen
dc.titleWar Trauma in the Construction of American Lost-war Culture: From WWI to Vietnam and the Presenten
dc.typePresentationen
dc.typeConference proceedingen
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