A erosão do masculino em souvenirs da Grande Guerra: virilidade e corpo militar

Abstract

This paper analyzes a group of representations imagistic transmitted through spread French postcards in the period of the Great War (1914 -1918). Looking for to notice as the French combatants was represented in this media type and opposing with the soldiers' reports that struggled in the front, the research search through the method iconography/iconological developed by Panofsky (2011) and used in several works of Stancik (2009, 2012, 2013, 2014 2017) understand how changes in representations of the military corps in these postcards and discuss virility in a characteristic transition time from the 19th to the 20th century stressing ruptures and permanences in this process. These postcards made a clear defense for militarism, to the virility and enhancement of the military's image, placing this as an indispensable component for the defense of the nation's interests in wartime.It was concluded that these souvenirs were able to express idealized conceptions of war, In addition, they played the role of diffusers of these conceptions.