Description

• Title:
  Authoring War Memories: War Memoir Writing and Testimonial Theatre Performances
• Creator:
  Bellot, Andrea Roxana
• Contributor:
  Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona, Spain;
  andrearoxana.bellot@urv.cat
• Description:
  This 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.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
• Date:
  2021.07.29;
  2020.12.30
• Type:
  Article
• Language:
  English
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Relation:
  Analyses/Rereadings/Theories: A Journal Devoted to Literature, Film and Theatre;1;
  6
• Subject:
  war memories;
  witness literature;
  theatre of testimony;
  re-enacting war experiences;
  trauma;
  autobiographical writing;
  war memoirs;
  self-representation
• Identifier:
  2353-6098;
  http://hdl.handle.net/11089/38321 ;
  10.18778/2353-6098.6.03
• Dostawca danych:
  Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Can I use it?:
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• Type:
  image