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- Title
Pilgrims in a Toxic Land: Writing the Trenches of the French Great War.
- Authors
Keith, Claire
- Abstract
This article revisits in an environmental perspective the literary perplexities raised by the unprecedented experience of modern mechanized warfare in WWI. It proposes that the dominantly agrarian economy and cultural traditions of France lent to the body of French war testimonies an ecological sensibility and expressive vocabulary that are distinct from those of their British or German counterparts, as they attempt to document the terminally damaged and poisoned environment of the trenches of the Western Front.
- Subjects
FRANCE; MECHANIZED warfare; POPULAR culture; WORLD War I French personal narratives; WORLD War I German personal narratives; WORLD War II British personal narratives
- Publication
French Literature Series, 2012, Vol 39, p69
- ISSN
0271-6607
- Publication type
Article