Author, as appears in the article.: Bellot A
Department: Estudis Anglesos i Alemanys
URV's Author/s: Bellot, Andrea Roxana
Keywords: War recollections War memories revisited Rewriting war trauma Falklands war military memoir A soldier’s song (k. lukowiak, 1993)
Abstract: 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.
Thematic Areas: Literature and literary theory Literature Cultural studies Ciencias humanas
licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
Author's mail: andrearoxana.bellot@urv.cat
Author identifier: 0000-0002-0561-2132
Record's date: 2024-10-12
Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Link to the original source: https://ubr.rev.unibuc.ro/past-issues/2008-2021/2021-2/2021-issue-1/
Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Papper original source: University Of Bucharest Review: Literary And Cultural Studies Series. 11 (1): 6-17
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
Article's DOI: 10.31178/UBR.11.1.1
Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Journal publication year: 2021
Publication Type: Journal Publications
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