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“ ‘Vous êtes un fanatique, oui – j’en suis un aussi.’ The position of Flanders within the context of internationalism in post-war Belgium: the case of L’Art libre (1919-1922).”
Mus, Francis
2018In Journal of European Periodical Studies, 3 (2), p. 38-51
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Keywords :
literary magazines; Belgian literature; Paul Colin
Abstract :
[en] The shock of the First World War resulted in a range of initiatives that, on the artistic level, radically called into question a number of fundamental concepts. While the function of new art was a topic that was discussed in different European countries, the international orientation of each national art differed from country to country. In Belgium, this was a complex issue. Notions such as ‘literature’ and especially ‘internationalism’ became the subject of a harsh battle for definition that was carried out in several literary and artistic magazines. In this article, I look at how these terms were defined within the artistic group surrounding the Brussels magazine L’Art libre (1919–22). I will give a general definition of internationalism in order to then elaborate the extent to which it may come into conflict with a focus on local, Flemish reality. As a social entity, Flanders did indeed fit into the internationalist program to recognize suppressed nations. Yet as an artistic entity, its existence was more problematically situated within a tendency for ever-increasing artistic internationalization. My analysis will show a number of discursive and argumentative strategies used by writers and critics in order to legitimate the idea of ‘Flanders’, both as a literary and as a social entity.
Research center :
CIRTI - Centre Interdisciplinaire de Recherches en Traduction et en Interprétation - ULiège
Disciplines :
Literature
Author, co-author :
Mus, Francis ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de langues modernes : ling., litt. et trad. > Traduction du français vers le néerlandais
Language :
English
Title :
“ ‘Vous êtes un fanatique, oui – j’en suis un aussi.’ The position of Flanders within the context of internationalism in post-war Belgium: the case of L’Art libre (1919-1922).”
Publication date :
2018
Journal title :
Journal of European Periodical Studies
eISSN :
2506-6587
Publisher :
Ghent University, Belgium
Volume :
3
Issue :
2
Pages :
38-51
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
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