Owen and Sassoon Reconsidered:: WWI Trauma, Memory and Contemporary Anti-War Poetry in the Post-Everything Era

Cristina Pividori

doi:10.5565/rev/tdevorado.246

Owen and Sassoon Reconsidered: WWI Trauma, Memory and Contemporary Anti-War Poetry in the Post-Everything Era

Títol traduït de la contribució: Owen i Sassoon reconsiderats: El trauma de la Primera Guerra Mundial, la memòria i la poesia antibel·licista contemporània en l'era ‘post-tot’

Cristina Pividori

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La poesia, juntament amb altres obres artístiques i acadèmiques, ha tingut un paper inavaluable en la preservació de la memòria traumàtica de la Primera Guerra Mundial, especialment després que la mort de l'últim veterà conegut marqués la fi de l'era dels testimonis vius del conflicte. El centenari de la Gran Guerra (2014-2018) ha encès una renovada producció poètica, que ha conduït a la publicació d'antologies com 1914: Poetry Remembers (2013), de la Poetessa Laureada Carol Ann Duffy. Aquesta col·lecció inclou dos poemes dels canònics poetes-soldats britànics Wilfred Owen i Siegfried Sassoon: "The Send-Off" i "Survivors." Les poetes contemporànies Carol Ann Duffy i Jackie Kay han seleccionat aquests poemes i han contribuït amb les seves pròpies peces en resposta.A partir de dos marcs teòrics, la noció de "memòria cultural" de Jan i Aleida Assmann, desenvolupada en els anys vuitanta i noranta, i el concepte de "postmemòria" de Marianne Hirsch (2008), exploraré les referències intertextuals, paral·lelismes temàtics, al·lusions i motius que connecten els poemes contemporanis amb els d'Owen i Sassoon per analitzar com les memòries, post-memòries i recreacions estètiques del conflicte interactuen i es transformen mútuament, destacant la complexitat i la contingència del coneixement històric.Argumento que la Primera Guerra Mundial ha servit com una narrativa fundacional que ha estat reinterpretada per abordar preocupacions i sensibilitats contemporànies, i que la interacció entre la poesia contemporània i la de la Primera Guerra Mundial revela no només l'impacte durador del trauma transgeneracional i la memòria cultural en la disrupció i transformació de les identitats individuals i col·lectives, sinó també la idea que la interpretació del conflicte a través de perspectives posteriors transcendeix contextos històrics específics.

Títol traduït de la contribució	Owen i Sassoon reconsiderats: El trauma de la Primera Guerra Mundial, la memòria i la poesia antibel·licista contemporània en l'era ‘post-tot’
Idioma original	Anglès
Pàgines (de-a)	41-77
Nombre de pàgines	37
Revista	Tiempo devorado
Volum	10
Número	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/tdevorado.246
Estat de la publicació	Publicada - 21 de gen. 2025

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MAS ALLA DE LA POSMEMORIA: PERSPECTIVAS LITERARIAS EN INGLES SOBRE LA GUERRA Y LA MEMORIA EN LA ERA (POS)POSMODERNA
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