National personification
A national personification is an anthropomorphic personification of a state or the people(s) it inhabits. It may appear in political cartoons and propaganda.
Some personifications in the Western world often took the
.Examples of personifications of the
Roma, a female deity who personified the city of Rome and his dominion over the territories of the Roman Empire.[1]
Examples of representations of the everyman or citizenry in addition to the nation itself are Deutscher Michel, John Bull and Uncle Sam.[2]
Gallery
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Iudaea Capta, "Conquered
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Italia und Germania (1828) by Johann Friedrich Overbeck.
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In this Allegory depicting the 1576 Pacification of Ghent by Adriaen Pietersz van de Venne, the seated women represent a short-lived unity among the embattled provinces of what would become the present-day Belgium and Netherlands
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1909 cartoon in Puck shows (clockwise) US, Germany, Britain, France and Japan engaged in naval race in a "no limit" game.
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Columbia depicted in anAmerican Committee for Relief in the Near Eastposter defending an Armenian woman beneath her flag.
Personifications by country or territory
See also
- Afghanis-tan, a manga originally published as a webcomic about Central Asia with personified countries.
- online communities.
- Hetalia: Axis Powers, an anime about personified countries interacting, mostly taking place within the World Wars.
- Mural crown
- National animal, often personifies a nation in cartoons.
- National emblem, for other metaphors for nations.
- National god, a deity that embodies a nation.
- National patron saint, a Saint that is regarded as the heavenly advocate of a nation.
References
- ^ "Il Tempio di Venere e Roma" (in Italian). Retrieved 12 September 2023.
- ^ Eric Hobsbawm, "Mass-Producing Traditions: Europe, 1870-1914," in Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger, eds., The Invention of Tradition (Cambridge, 1983), 263-307.
- ISBN 8176484695. Retrieved July 11, 2012.
- ^ "NATIONAL SYMBOLS". Bangladesh Tourism Board. Bangladesh: Ministry of Civil Aviation & Tourism. Archived from the original on 2016-12-28. Retrieved 2015-09-10.
- ISBN 978-2-930423-01-2.
- ISBN 978-1-909662-30-8.
- ISBN 9780773551589. Retrieved 17 May 2019.
- ISBN 9780195427073.
- ^ "Library and Archives Canada". Library and Archives Canada.
- ^ Hassanabadi, Mahmoud. "Rostam: A Complex Puzzle: A New Approach to the Identification of the Character of Rostam in the Iranian National Epos Shāhnāme".
- ISBN 9780739152546.
- ^ Heck, Isabel. "Le mythe de Siyâvosh: rapports entre l'épopée nationale de ferdowsi et des récits populaires en Iran (The myth of Siyâvosh: relationships between the national epic of Ferdowsi and popular stories in Iran)" (PDF) (in French). Retrieved 2024-02-08.
- ^ O'Rourke Murphy, M. & MacKillop, J. (2006). An Irish Literature Reader: Poetry, Prose, Drama.
- ISBN 9780313344978.
- ISBN 9780531120996.
- ^ ""Saint Mark", Franciscan Media". Archived from the original on 8 October 2020. Retrieved 30 July 2018.
- ^ Yordan Zhelyazkov (February 12, 2021). "Amaterasu – Goddess, Mother and Queen". Symbolsage. Archived from the original on June 3, 2022. Retrieved August 15, 2022.
- ISBN 978-0-86746-909-7.
- ISBN 978-981-4032-48-3.
- ISBN 978-0313344961.
- ^ Subba, Sanghamitra. "Love it or hate it, it's abominable".
- ^ Phillips, Jock. "South African War memorial, Waimate".
- ^ Dingwall, R. "Southern Man (Dunedin Airport)", Otago Sculpture Trust, 19 November 2011. Retrieved 14 July 2017.
- ^ A Manifesto from the Provisional Government of Macedonia, 1881,
Our mother Macedonia became now as a widow, lonely and deserted by her sons. She does not fly the banner of the victorious Macedonian army
- ^ Bulgarian graphic representation of Bulgaria, East Rumelia and North Macedonia
- ^ "Kunstschatten: Mama Sranan - Parbode Magazine". Archived from the original on 2016-04-14. Retrieved 2016-03-30.
- ^ Valance, Marc. (Baden, 2013) Die Schweizer Kuh. Kult und Vermarktung eines nationalen Symbols, p. 6 ff.
Further reading
- ISBN 0-87169-975-3. [1]
External links
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