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Item Dialogues, reinterpretations, critical repositionings in literary and cultural discourses of 21st century Canada(2020) Drewniak, Dagmara; Branach-Kallas, AnnaItem Misfits of war: First World War nurses in "The Daughters of Mars" by Thomas Keneally(Adam Mickiewicz University, 2018-03) Branach-Kallas, AnnaThe article is an analysis of the representation of Australian nurses in Thomas Keneally 2012 First World War novel, The Daughters of Mars. Inspired by rigorous research, Keneally fictionalizes the lives of two nursing sisters in the Middle East, on a hospital ship in the Dardanelles, as well as in hospitals and casualty clearing stations on the Western Front. His novel thus reclaims an important facet of the medical history of the First World War. The author of the article situates her analysis in the context of historical research on the First World War and the Australian Anzac myth, illuminating the specifically Australian elements in Keneally’s portrait of the Durance sisters. She demonstrates that The Daughters of Mars celebrates the achievements of “Anzac girls”, negotiating a place for them in the culture of commemoration. Yet, at the same time, Keneally attempts to include his female protagonists in the “manly” world of Anzac values, privileging heroism over victimization. Consequently, they become “misfits of war”, eagerly accepting imperial and nationalist ideologies. Thus, in a way characteristic of Australian First World War literature, The Daughters of Mars fuses the tropes of affirmation and desolation.Item Permutations of remembrance and (counter-) monumentalization: John McCrae’s "In Flanders Fields"(2020) Branach-Kallas, AnnaThe article engages with the cultural impact of John McCrae’s canonical poem “In Flanders Fields” (1915), and more specifically the permutations of cultural memory and heritage discourse in In Flanders Fields: 100 Years: Writing on War, Loss and Remembrance, edited by Amanda Betts and published in 2015. It shows how thirteen Canadians explore the revolutionary role of the poem in Canadian collective and individual memory, as well as its omissions and misrepresentations. The article juxtaposes the cultural history of the poem with Wilfred Owen’s “Dulce et Decorum Est” and its contemporary transformations, also showing how selected essays in the collection bridge the First World War with other armed conflicts. Applying Ann Rigney’s terminology, the article approaches the poem as a textual monument, demonstrating how “In Flanders Fields” has evolved from the role of a stabilizer in Canadian cultural memory, providing a cultural frame for later recollections, to that of a calibrator, becoming a benchmark for critical reflection on dominant memorial practices.Item Polish Immigrants’ Search for the Peaceable Kingdom: Andrew J. Borkowski’s Copernicus Avenue(Polskie Towarzystwo Badań Kanadyjskich, 2013) Branach-Kallas, AnnaL’article est une étude du recueil de nouvelles Copernicus Avenue (2011) de Andrew J. Borkowski, écrivain canadien d’origine polonaise. L’analyse se concentre sur l’évolution de la diaspora polonaise à Toronto après la Deuxième Guerre mondiale et sur les efforts des immigrants pour reconstruire leur existence au Canada. L’article commence par un aperçu historique sur l’immigration polonaise dans les années d’après-guerre et sur la législation concernant ce groupe ethnique. On vise à analyser les histoires individuelles des refugiés polonais et leur assmilation au Canada à l’exemple de Thadeus Mienkiewicz, le personnage principal de Copernicus Avenue. Discriminé et humilié, Thadeus rêve d’une identité canadienne interprétée comme liberté et succès. Dans Copernicus Avenue, Borkowski établit aussi un dialogue fascinant entre les diasporas polonaise et irlandaise, fondé sur leur expérience d’exclusion sociale partagée. Les concepts de migration et d’identité diasporique sont étudiés du point de vue du constructivisme et des théories du trauma.