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Papers by Andrea Bellot
Teflin Journal, Mar 29, 2024
DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals), Feb 1, 2022
Journal of virtual exchange, Dec 20, 2023
T his practice report describes a Virtual Exchange (VE), Collaborative Online International Learn... more T his practice report describes a Virtual Exchange (VE), Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) experience (US and Spain) titled Identity Matters: Culture, Ethnicity, and Race in Literature. It describes the formation of students' individual and communal identities in the virtual literary classroom. The Spanish students were perusing a BA in English Studies, and the American students were studying various Arts and Sciences BA degrees. Both courses were based in American English literature, so this VE course was conducted in English because the Spanish students were required to do their coursework in English. Students read American short stories/poems about the identities of American/American immigrant characters from different racial backgrounds: African American, Indigenous, Asian, and Latinx. The texts portrayed characters dealing with identity crises: racial, ethnic, and types of discrimination in contemporary American society. Students were prompted to discuss their individual identities and, when placed in a group, their communal identities with identity charts, in relation to the characters' identities and discriminatory experiences. However, although some students discussed race (social/biocultural construct) in their individual charts, racial cognizance was missing in the group charts and they discussed differences in terms of ethnicity (national/cultural: ancestry, language, beliefs). Additionally, because of these results, we believe that intercultural communication in VE should create/provide a space for race cognizance, among international identities, to better understand the different contexts of stereotypes, prejudices, racism, and/or discrimination experiences that make up all identities
Routledge eBooks, Aug 29, 2023
Advances in educational technologies and instructional design book series, May 5, 2023
Advances in educational technologies and instructional design book series, Jun 24, 2022
Text and Performance Quarterly
Analyses/Rereadings/Theories: A Journal Devoted to Literature, Film and Theatre
This paper will discuss aspects concerning authorship, memory, and war representation, as well as... more 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.
University of Bucharest Review. Literary and Cultural Studies Series, 2021
Private Ken Lukowiak was a member of the Second Battalion Parachute Regiment (2 PARA) of the Brit... more Private Ken Lukowiak was a member of the Second Battalion Parachute Regiment (2 PARA) of the British Army deployed to the Falkland Islands for the 1982 British-Argentine conflict. The veteran’s creative drive motivated him into writing down his memories, and writing helped him overcome his war traumas. This paper seeks to explore Lukowiak’s memoir as a work offering an alternative retelling of the Falklands War, based on a deep emotional framework, in contrast to the narrative of heroism favoured by mass media. His personal account emphasizes the psychological distress and detachment of a soldier in opposition to the supposedly exemplary and outstanding behaviour of troops as often portrayed in mainstream journalism during and after the armed conflict.
Interstudia (Revista Centrului Interdisciplinar de Studiu al Formelor Discursive Contemporane Interstud), 2020
Close Encounters in War Journal, 2020
This paper aims to explore the connections between textual expression and traumatic recollection ... more This paper aims to explore the connections between textual expression and traumatic recollection in Ken Lukowiak's Falklands War memoirs, A Soldier's Song (1993). Private Ken Lukowiak was a member of the Second Battalion Parachute Regiment of the British Army deployed to the Falkland Islands for the 1982 British Argentine conflict. After suffering a long depression and post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), the veteran's creative drive motivated him into writing down his memories, to help him overcome his war traumas. He needed an organized, written account of his daily experiences during that time to make sense of the war, to understand what he had been through, to heal and move forward.
Journal of Veterans Studies, 2021
This paper analyzes the representation of women in an independent theatre production on the war i... more This paper analyzes the representation of women in an independent theatre production on the war in Iraq titled Outside Paducah: The Wars at Home (2016). The play is written and performed solo by James Allen Moad II, a former Air Force pilot. It is divided into three acts, each one telling independent stories to reflect the trauma of war and its longterm consequences in war veterans and their family members at home. The three stories are set around the city of Paducah, Kentucky, located between the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers, and take place during the summer of 2007. Each features a male character: a boy whose father returns from Iraq with a brain injury, a father whose son from the Marines committed suicide, and a former soldier on a visit to his hometown after returning from the war zone in Baghdad. By focusing on the role of female civilians in Moad's play, the paper will illustrate how postwar damage, treatment, and representation are primarily male-related. The equally damaged women's voices and their perspectives, whether they are civilians or members of the military, remain in the background. Their silence, therefore, fills the space of the not-said and the not-seen.
La Guerra de Malvines / Falklands va tenir lloc el 1982 entre el Regne Unit i Argentina a causa d... more La Guerra de Malvines / Falklands va tenir lloc el 1982 entre el Regne Unit i Argentina a causa de la sobirania d'un grup reduit d'illes a l'Atlantic Sud . Els nacionalismes van jugar un paper fonamental en el desenvolupament d'aquest conflicte , ja que el prestigi d'ambdues nacions havia de ser sobre guardat . La premsa va ser un mecanisme clau en la promocio de les identitats nacionalistes durant la guerra , mitjancant l'activacio de sentiments patriotes . Tambe va servir com a vehicle per a la propaganda politica . L'any 2012 va marcar una data important: el 30 aniversari de la guerra ; que va tenir lloc enmig d' una recrudescencia del conflicte politic mitjancant la demanda argentina de la reconsideracio de la questio de la sobirania nacional sobre el territori de les Illes Malvines . L'objectiu principal d'aquesta investigacio es explorar com el discurs nacionalista va ser construit i desenvolupat per la premsa britanica amb motiu de la c...
Coolabah, 2013
Although the Malvinas/Falklands War (1982) was relatively short and did not involve a great numbe... more Although the Malvinas/Falklands War (1982) was relatively short and did not involve a great number of losses, it stands as an important blow in the collective memory of the two nations involved: Great Britain and Argentina. For the British, it was the last “colonial” war and one which allowed Margaret Thatcher to stay in power for almost a decade after the British victory. For the Argentine, it was the only war fought and lost in the twentieth century and it brought about the fall of the dictatorship. This paper will summarise the course of events related to the war, showing how the war implied a major nationalist project for both nations since national honour and national dignity were at stake. By making use of historical publications, this paper will also explore how and why some pacific solutions were ignored before the war broke out, as well as the failure of diplomatic negotiations in putting an end to the conflict.
Journal of Contemporary Drama in English, 2021
Outside Paducah: The Wars at Home (2016), a play written and performed solo by James Allen Moad I... more Outside Paducah: The Wars at Home (2016), a play written and performed solo by James Allen Moad II, a former Air Force pilot, explores the enduring effects of war on American veterans and their families after soldiers return home from the battleground. The play moves beyond the individual representation of a traumatized veteran by addressing two intertwined issues: the collective and transgenerational burden of war, both in the form of physical wounds and/or moral injuries. Outside Paducah contributes to promoting the stage as a dynamic place to think about the war legacy and to question and challenge war itself by stressing the importance of understanding the cost of war on both personal and societal levels. The play shows that the scenes of war fought in foreign lands are brought back to the home territories and families, who become equally demoralised by the perpetuation of war in their homelands. The soldiers return as ghosts of their previous selves and haunt their families and...
Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory, 2021
The remembrance of war and commemoration practices shape the collective memories of society and, ... more The remembrance of war and commemoration practices shape the collective memories of society and, as such, war has been one of the most productive topics in memory studies. Commemorating past wars is one of the ways of constructing a commonly shared memory that would enhance group cohesion and shape collective identity. This paper will provide three examples of sites of memory in reference to the Malvinas/Falklands War, one from each side of the dispute— United Kingdom, Argentina and a third example from the actual territory of the Falkland Islands to illustrate how war memorials are an expression of patriotism, built to frame the deaths in terms of a national narrative of glorious sacrifice for cause and nation. Therefore, war commemoration recalls past experiences of suffering, but at the same time, of resistance.
Journal of Veterans Studies, 2021
Teflin Journal, Mar 29, 2024
DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals), Feb 1, 2022
Journal of virtual exchange, Dec 20, 2023
T his practice report describes a Virtual Exchange (VE), Collaborative Online International Learn... more T his practice report describes a Virtual Exchange (VE), Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) experience (US and Spain) titled Identity Matters: Culture, Ethnicity, and Race in Literature. It describes the formation of students' individual and communal identities in the virtual literary classroom. The Spanish students were perusing a BA in English Studies, and the American students were studying various Arts and Sciences BA degrees. Both courses were based in American English literature, so this VE course was conducted in English because the Spanish students were required to do their coursework in English. Students read American short stories/poems about the identities of American/American immigrant characters from different racial backgrounds: African American, Indigenous, Asian, and Latinx. The texts portrayed characters dealing with identity crises: racial, ethnic, and types of discrimination in contemporary American society. Students were prompted to discuss their individual identities and, when placed in a group, their communal identities with identity charts, in relation to the characters' identities and discriminatory experiences. However, although some students discussed race (social/biocultural construct) in their individual charts, racial cognizance was missing in the group charts and they discussed differences in terms of ethnicity (national/cultural: ancestry, language, beliefs). Additionally, because of these results, we believe that intercultural communication in VE should create/provide a space for race cognizance, among international identities, to better understand the different contexts of stereotypes, prejudices, racism, and/or discrimination experiences that make up all identities
Routledge eBooks, Aug 29, 2023
Advances in educational technologies and instructional design book series, May 5, 2023
Advances in educational technologies and instructional design book series, Jun 24, 2022
Text and Performance Quarterly
Analyses/Rereadings/Theories: A Journal Devoted to Literature, Film and Theatre
This paper will discuss aspects concerning authorship, memory, and war representation, as well as... more 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.
University of Bucharest Review. Literary and Cultural Studies Series, 2021
Private Ken Lukowiak was a member of the Second Battalion Parachute Regiment (2 PARA) of the Brit... more Private Ken Lukowiak was a member of the Second Battalion Parachute Regiment (2 PARA) of the British Army deployed to the Falkland Islands for the 1982 British-Argentine conflict. The veteran’s creative drive motivated him into writing down his memories, and writing helped him overcome his war traumas. This paper seeks to explore Lukowiak’s memoir as a work offering an alternative retelling of the Falklands War, based on a deep emotional framework, in contrast to the narrative of heroism favoured by mass media. His personal account emphasizes the psychological distress and detachment of a soldier in opposition to the supposedly exemplary and outstanding behaviour of troops as often portrayed in mainstream journalism during and after the armed conflict.
Interstudia (Revista Centrului Interdisciplinar de Studiu al Formelor Discursive Contemporane Interstud), 2020
Close Encounters in War Journal, 2020
This paper aims to explore the connections between textual expression and traumatic recollection ... more This paper aims to explore the connections between textual expression and traumatic recollection in Ken Lukowiak's Falklands War memoirs, A Soldier's Song (1993). Private Ken Lukowiak was a member of the Second Battalion Parachute Regiment of the British Army deployed to the Falkland Islands for the 1982 British Argentine conflict. After suffering a long depression and post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), the veteran's creative drive motivated him into writing down his memories, to help him overcome his war traumas. He needed an organized, written account of his daily experiences during that time to make sense of the war, to understand what he had been through, to heal and move forward.
Journal of Veterans Studies, 2021
This paper analyzes the representation of women in an independent theatre production on the war i... more This paper analyzes the representation of women in an independent theatre production on the war in Iraq titled Outside Paducah: The Wars at Home (2016). The play is written and performed solo by James Allen Moad II, a former Air Force pilot. It is divided into three acts, each one telling independent stories to reflect the trauma of war and its longterm consequences in war veterans and their family members at home. The three stories are set around the city of Paducah, Kentucky, located between the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers, and take place during the summer of 2007. Each features a male character: a boy whose father returns from Iraq with a brain injury, a father whose son from the Marines committed suicide, and a former soldier on a visit to his hometown after returning from the war zone in Baghdad. By focusing on the role of female civilians in Moad's play, the paper will illustrate how postwar damage, treatment, and representation are primarily male-related. The equally damaged women's voices and their perspectives, whether they are civilians or members of the military, remain in the background. Their silence, therefore, fills the space of the not-said and the not-seen.
La Guerra de Malvines / Falklands va tenir lloc el 1982 entre el Regne Unit i Argentina a causa d... more La Guerra de Malvines / Falklands va tenir lloc el 1982 entre el Regne Unit i Argentina a causa de la sobirania d'un grup reduit d'illes a l'Atlantic Sud . Els nacionalismes van jugar un paper fonamental en el desenvolupament d'aquest conflicte , ja que el prestigi d'ambdues nacions havia de ser sobre guardat . La premsa va ser un mecanisme clau en la promocio de les identitats nacionalistes durant la guerra , mitjancant l'activacio de sentiments patriotes . Tambe va servir com a vehicle per a la propaganda politica . L'any 2012 va marcar una data important: el 30 aniversari de la guerra ; que va tenir lloc enmig d' una recrudescencia del conflicte politic mitjancant la demanda argentina de la reconsideracio de la questio de la sobirania nacional sobre el territori de les Illes Malvines . L'objectiu principal d'aquesta investigacio es explorar com el discurs nacionalista va ser construit i desenvolupat per la premsa britanica amb motiu de la c...
Coolabah, 2013
Although the Malvinas/Falklands War (1982) was relatively short and did not involve a great numbe... more Although the Malvinas/Falklands War (1982) was relatively short and did not involve a great number of losses, it stands as an important blow in the collective memory of the two nations involved: Great Britain and Argentina. For the British, it was the last “colonial” war and one which allowed Margaret Thatcher to stay in power for almost a decade after the British victory. For the Argentine, it was the only war fought and lost in the twentieth century and it brought about the fall of the dictatorship. This paper will summarise the course of events related to the war, showing how the war implied a major nationalist project for both nations since national honour and national dignity were at stake. By making use of historical publications, this paper will also explore how and why some pacific solutions were ignored before the war broke out, as well as the failure of diplomatic negotiations in putting an end to the conflict.
Journal of Contemporary Drama in English, 2021
Outside Paducah: The Wars at Home (2016), a play written and performed solo by James Allen Moad I... more Outside Paducah: The Wars at Home (2016), a play written and performed solo by James Allen Moad II, a former Air Force pilot, explores the enduring effects of war on American veterans and their families after soldiers return home from the battleground. The play moves beyond the individual representation of a traumatized veteran by addressing two intertwined issues: the collective and transgenerational burden of war, both in the form of physical wounds and/or moral injuries. Outside Paducah contributes to promoting the stage as a dynamic place to think about the war legacy and to question and challenge war itself by stressing the importance of understanding the cost of war on both personal and societal levels. The play shows that the scenes of war fought in foreign lands are brought back to the home territories and families, who become equally demoralised by the perpetuation of war in their homelands. The soldiers return as ghosts of their previous selves and haunt their families and...
Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory, 2021
The remembrance of war and commemoration practices shape the collective memories of society and, ... more The remembrance of war and commemoration practices shape the collective memories of society and, as such, war has been one of the most productive topics in memory studies. Commemorating past wars is one of the ways of constructing a commonly shared memory that would enhance group cohesion and shape collective identity. This paper will provide three examples of sites of memory in reference to the Malvinas/Falklands War, one from each side of the dispute— United Kingdom, Argentina and a third example from the actual territory of the Falkland Islands to illustrate how war memorials are an expression of patriotism, built to frame the deaths in terms of a national narrative of glorious sacrifice for cause and nation. Therefore, war commemoration recalls past experiences of suffering, but at the same time, of resistance.
Journal of Veterans Studies, 2021