Permutations of remembrance and (counter-) monumentalization: John McCrae’s "In Flanders Fields"

Branach-Kallas, Anna

Permutations of remembrance and (counter-) monumentalization: John McCrae’s "In Flanders Fields"

dc.contributor.author	Branach-Kallas, Anna
dc.date.accessioned	2021-02-21T21:41:05Z
dc.date.available	2021-02-21T21:41:05Z
dc.date.issued	2020
dc.description.abstract	The 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.	pl_PL
dc.description.sponsorship	This work was supported by the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange (NAWA), under grant number PPN/BEK/2018/1/00048/U/00001.	pl_PL
dc.identifier.citation	Studia Anglica Posnaniensia vol. 55, 2020, pp. 427-443	pl_PL
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.2478/stap-2020-0021
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10593/26121
dc.language.iso	eng	pl_PL
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess	pl_PL
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/	*
dc.subject	heritage	pl_PL
dc.subject	cultural memory	pl_PL
dc.subject	monumentalization	pl_PL
dc.subject	trauma	pl_PL
dc.subject	body	pl_PL
dc.subject	family memory	pl_PL
dc.subject	witnessing	pl_PL
dc.title	Permutations of remembrance and (counter-) monumentalization: John McCrae’s "In Flanders Fields"	pl_PL
dc.type	Artykuł	pl_PL