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Revisiting the past, narrating war memories: retelling the Falklands War in a soldier’s song

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    Identificador: imarina:9258960
    Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/imarina9258960
    Autors:
    Bellot A
    Resum:
    Private Ken Lukowiak was a member of the Second Battalion Parachute Regiment (2 PARA) of the British Army deployed to the Falkland Islands for the 1982 British-Argentine conflict. The veteran’s creative drive motivated him into writing down his memories, and writing helped him overcome his war traumas. This paper seeks to explore Lukowiak’s memoir as a work offering an alternative retelling of the Falklands War, based on a deep emotional framework, in contrast to the narrative of heroism favoured by mass media. His personal account emphasizes the psychological distress and detachment of a soldier in opposition to the supposedly exemplary and outstanding behaviour of troops as often portrayed in mainstream journalism during and after the armed conflict.

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    Autor segons l'article: Bellot A
    Departament: Estudis Anglesos i Alemanys
    Autor/s de la URV: Bellot, Andrea Roxana
    Paraules clau: War recollections War memories revisited Rewriting war trauma Falklands war military memoir A soldier’s song (k. lukowiak, 1993)
    Resum: Private Ken Lukowiak was a member of the Second Battalion Parachute Regiment (2 PARA) of the British Army deployed to the Falkland Islands for the 1982 British-Argentine conflict. The veteran’s creative drive motivated him into writing down his memories, and writing helped him overcome his war traumas. This paper seeks to explore Lukowiak’s memoir as a work offering an alternative retelling of the Falklands War, based on a deep emotional framework, in contrast to the narrative of heroism favoured by mass media. His personal account emphasizes the psychological distress and detachment of a soldier in opposition to the supposedly exemplary and outstanding behaviour of troops as often portrayed in mainstream journalism during and after the armed conflict.
    Àrees temàtiques: Literature and literary theory Literature Cultural studies Ciencias humanas
    Accès a la llicència d'ús: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
    Adreça de correu electrònic de l'autor: andrearoxana.bellot@urv.cat
    Identificador de l'autor: 0000-0002-0561-2132
    Data d'alta del registre: 2024-10-12
    Versió de l'article dipositat: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
    Enllaç font original: https://ubr.rev.unibuc.ro/past-issues/2008-2021/2021-2/2021-issue-1/
    URL Document de llicència: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
    Referència a l'article segons font original: University Of Bucharest Review: Literary And Cultural Studies Series. 11 (1): 6-17
    Referència de l'ítem segons les normes APA: Bellot A (2021). Revisiting the past, narrating war memories: retelling the Falklands War in a soldier’s song. University Of Bucharest Review: Literary And Cultural Studies Series, 11(1), 6-17. DOI: 10.31178/UBR.11.1.1
    DOI de l'article: 10.31178/UBR.11.1.1
    Entitat: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
    Any de publicació de la revista: 2021
    Tipus de publicació: Journal Publications

  • Paraules clau:

    Cultural Studies,Literature and Literary Theory
    War recollections
    War memories revisited
    Rewriting war trauma
    Falklands war military memoir
    A soldier’s song (k. lukowiak, 1993)
    Literature and literary theory
    Literature
    Cultural studies
    Ciencias humanas

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