Keywords
World War I
II
Évelyne Pollet
displaced memory
How to Cite
Abstract
Today’s studies on memory encourage multidirectional memory, which assumes the transdisciplinary perspective and permits new understanding of texts which address traumatic events of the previous century. This is so in the case of Evelyne Pollet (1905-2005). Her largely autobiographical novel Grandes vacances en Angleterre (1945) is a record of a Belgian refugee family’s stay in Great Britain during World War One. This would not be particularly interesting if it had not been for the fact that the author does it near the end of the second global conflict. Her return to the events of 1914 1918 is not coincidental. Pollet purposefully turns the reader’s attention away from the inglorious chapters of her biography, her close ties with the collaborators’ literary milieu, and her intensive editorial work during the occupation. Grandes vacances en Angleterre is an example of instrumental approach to the type of memory referred to ‘displaced memory’.References
Almeras, Ph. (1994). Céline : entre haines et passion, Paris : Ed. Robert Laffont.
Amara, M. (2014). Des Belges à l’épreuve de l’exil. Les réfugiés de la Première Guerre mondiale en France, en Angleterre et aux Pays-Bas, Bruxelles : l’Université de Bruxelles.
Baumann, R. (2007). La Grande Guerre comme mémoire romanesque de l’enfer concentrationnaire?, Textyles, 32-33, 106-126.
Fratta, A. S., (2012). « Dire la guerre. Les lettres belges pendant la Première Guerre mondiale », Confluências, 21, 363-377.
Fréché, B. (2007). « L’actualité de la Première Guerre mondiale après la Seconde », Textyles, 32-33, 89-105.
Fréché, B. (2009). Littérature et société en Belgique francophone (1944-1960), Bruxelles : Le CRI/CIELULB-Ulg.
Laserra, A., Leclercq, N., Quaghebeur, M. (dir.) (2008). Mémoires et antimémoires littéraires au XXe siècle. La Première Guerre mondiale, Bruxelles : Peter Lang, coll. Documents pour l’Histoire des Francophonies, n° 15. Cf. Textyles, 47 / 2015, 225-229.
Pollet, E. (1945). Les grandes vacances en Angleterre, Bruxelles : Les Éditions Libres.
Pollet, E. (1938). La Maison carrée, Bruxelles : Éditions du Cercle d’Art (avec la préface de Marie Gevers).
Quaghebeur, M. (1997). « Éléments pour une étude du champ littéraire belge francophone de l’après-guerre », in Leurs occupations. L’impact de la Seconde Guerre mondiale sur la littérature en Belgique, Bruxelles : Textyles-CREHGSM.
Rothberg, M. (2014). « Multidirectional memory », Témoigner. Entre histoire et mémoire (réd. Ph. Mesnard), 119 / 2014, 176.
Roux (de), D., Beaujour, M., Thélia, M. (1972). L.-F Céline, Paris : L’Herne.
Teklik, J. (2012). « Raconter pour témoigner : la guerre et l’Occupation dans le champ littéraire belge », Studia Romanica Posnaniensia XXXIX/1, 59-67.
Vitoux, F. (2005), La vie de Céline, Paris : Gallimard.
License
- The Author hereby warrants that he/she is the owner of all the copyright and other intellectual property rights in the Work and that, within the scope of the present Agreement, the paper does not infringe the legal rights of another person.The owner of the copyright work also warrants that he/she is the sole and original creator thereof and that is not bound by any legal constraints in regard to the use or sale of the work.
- The Author grants the Purchaser non-exclusive and free of charge license to unlimited use worldwide over an unspecified period of time in the following areas of exploitation:
2.1. production of multiple copies of the Work produced according to the specific application of a given technology, including printing, reproduction of graphics through mechanical or electrical means (reprography) and digital technology;
2.2. marketing authorisation, loan or lease of the original or copies thereof;
2.3. public performance, public performance in the broadcast, video screening, media enhancements as well as broadcasting and rebroadcasting, made available to the public in such a way that members of the public may access the Work from a place and at a time individually chosen by them;
2.4. inclusion of the Work into a collective work (i.e. with a number of contributions);
2.5. inclusion of the Work in the electronic version to be offered on an electronic platform, or any other conceivable introduction of the Work in its electronic version to the Internet;
2.6. dissemination of electronic versions of the Work in its electronic version online, in a collective work or independently;
2.7. making the Work in the electronic version available to the public in such a way that members of the public may access the Work from a place and at a time individually chosen by them, in particular by making it accessible via the Internet, Intranet, Extranet;
2.8. making the Work available according to appropriate license pattern Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) as well as another language version of this license or any later version published by Creative Commons. - The Author grants the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan permission to:
3.1. reproduce a single copy (print or download) and royalty-free use and disposal of rights to compilations of the Work and these compilations.
3.2. send metadata files related to the Work, including to commercial and non-commercial journal-indexing databases. - The Author declares that, on the basis of the license granted in the present Agreement, the Purchaser is entitled and obliged to allow third parties to obtain further licenses (sublicenses) to the Work and to other materials, including derivatives thereof or compilations made based on or including the Work, whereas the provisions of such sub-licenses will be the same as with the attributed license pattern Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)or another language version of this license, or any later version of this license published by Creative Commons. Thereby, the Author entitles all interested parties to use the work, for non-commercial purposes only, under the following conditions:
4.1. acknowledgment of authorship, i.e. observing the obligation to provide, along with the distributed work, information about the author, title, source (link to the original Work, DOI) and of the license itself.
4.2. the derivatives of the Work are subject to the same conditions, i.e. they may be published only based on a licence which would be identical to the one granting access to the original Work. - The University of Adam Mickiewicz in Poznań is obliged to
5.1. make the Work available to the public in such a way that members of the public may access the Work from a place and at a time individually chosen by them, without any technological constraints;
5.2. appropriately inform members of the public to whom the Work is to be made available about sublicenses in such a way as to ensure that all parties are properly informed (appropriate informing messages).
Other provisions
- The University of Adam Mickiewicz in Poznań hereby preserves the copyright to the journal as a whole (layout/stylesheet, graphics, cover design, logo etc.)