Collective Singing in Romanian Fascism

Clark, Roland

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“…As they entered the monastery's graveyard, the coffins were met with the Roman salute, performed by a crowd of several thousand. After the final religious service was officiated, the crowd intoned its growing repertoire of legionary songs (collective singing was deemed paramount as a means of binding the legionary community; see Codreanu 1936, 303;Clark 2013). From this moment, the funerary process followed a standard ritual sequence which I will now describe.…”

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Staging Death: Christofascist Necropolitics during the National Legionary State in Romania, 1940–1941

Rusu

2020

Nationalities Papers

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The cult of death and the celebration of martyrdom lay at the core of interwar fascist movements across the European continent. However, it was in the Romanian Legionary Movement (also known as the Iron Guard) that these were articulated into a full-fledged ideology of thanatic ultranationalism. In this article, I examine the spectacular fascist necropolitics staged as state-sponsored funeral performances during the short-lived National Legionary State (September 14, 1940–February 14, 1941). A detailed description of the massive campaign of exhumations and reburials of the so-called “legionary martyrs” carried out during this short time span, culminating with the grandiose ceremony organized for the reburial of Corneliu Zelea Codreanu on November 30, 1940, provides insight into the legionary thanatic worldview and ritual praxis. It also sheds light on the movement’s politics of commemoration, death, and afterlife and shows how these were embedded into a religious framework underpinned by theological concepts such as heroic martyrdom, vicarious atonement, and collective redemption.

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