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Authoring War Memories: War Memoir Writing and Testimonial Theatre Performances

dc.contributor.authorBellot, Andrea Roxana
dc.date.accessioned2021-07-29T15:21:48Z
dc.date.available2021-07-29T15:21:48Z
dc.date.issued2020-12-30
dc.identifier.issn2353-6098
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11089/38321
dc.description.abstractThis paper will discuss aspects concerning authorship, memory, and war representation, as well as trauma and healing. In order to do so, I will explore the writing of war memoirs and/or the re-enactment of war experiences on the stage as two ways of expressing and coping with war trauma. In both cases, the concept of the author, a war veteran as first-person narrator or self-performer, is central to the representation of the traumatic memories of war. It is precisely through this interaction between the author, as a legitimate witness, and source of authentic and reliable information, that the readership/audience connects emotionally with the experience of the combatants and can empathise with their situation. A theoretical conceptualisation of war memoir writing, and testimonial theatre will be illustrated with specific examples of texts connected with the Falklands War (UK-Argentina, 1982). The dominant perspective of the reflection are veterans’ stories.en
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherWydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiegopl
dc.relation.ispartofseriesAnalyses/Rereadings/Theories: A Journal Devoted to Literature, Film and Theatre;1en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
dc.subjectwar memoriesen
dc.subjectwitness literatureen
dc.subjecttheatre of testimonyen
dc.subjectre-enacting war experiencesen
dc.subjecttraumaen
dc.subjectautobiographical writingen
dc.subjectwar memoirsen
dc.subjectself-representationen
dc.titleAuthoring War Memories: War Memoir Writing and Testimonial Theatre Performancesen
dc.typeArticle
dc.page.number18-27
dc.contributor.authorAffiliationRovira i Virgili University, Tarragona, Spainen
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dc.contributor.authorEmailandrearoxana.bellot@urv.cat
dc.identifier.doi10.18778/2353-6098.6.03
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