Les soldats de l’Oncle Sam : stéréotypes des combattants américains dans la littérature de jeunesse de la Grande Guerre en France (1917-1920)
Uncle Sam’s Soldiers: Stereotypes of American Combatants in French Children’s Literature During the Great War (1917-1920)
Author(s): Joceline Chabot, Noémie Haché-ChiassonSubject(s): Cultural history, Studies of Literature, Military history, French Literature, Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919), Interwar Period (1920 - 1939)
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Sklodowskiej
Keywords: Great War; France; children’s literature; American soldiers; alterity;
Summary/Abstract: During World War I, the ongoing conflict became the main subject of published stories for French youth. Children’s literature beginning to focus on short and educational stories while sharing these with adult literature themes like the exaltation of France and its allies as well as the demonization of the enemy. This article analyses stereotypical representations of the American ally (entry into the war in 1917) through two collections of French youth literature. Because of their function of reductive simplification, stereotypes serve as an effective tool for filtering reality by exploiting existing cultural representations.
Journal: Lublin Studies in Modern Languages and Literature
- Issue Year: 45/2021
- Issue No: 4
- Page Range: 15-24
- Page Count: 10
- Language: French