Re-inscribing a Monument: Vimy in the Canadian Consciousness

Re-inscribing a Monument: Vimy in the Canadian Consciousness

This essay focuses on the efficacy of Walter Allward’s immense Canadian National Vimy Memorial built at Vimy Ridge in France and unveiled in 1936. Like other battlefield memorials located far from their primary audiences, the Vimy Memorial must deliberately intervene into Canadian consciousness in o...

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Prif Awdur: Coutu, Joan
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Cyhoeddwyd: Études canadiennes / Canadian Studies 2016
Pynciau:
mémoire
identité nationale
monument
conscience collective
hétérotopie
memory
identity
Monument
consciousness
heterotopia
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Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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spelling openedition-oai:revues.org:eccs_663 https://doi.org/10.4000/eccs.663 urn:doi:10.4000/eccs.663 en https://journals.openedition.org/eccs/663 2016-11-26T01:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/ff7w All rights reserved Re-inscribing a Monument: Vimy in the Canadian Consciousness Études canadiennes / Canadian Studies Association française des études canadiennes (AFEC) info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2429-4667 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/0153-1700 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/eccs Coutu, Joan mémoire identité nationale monument conscience collective hétérotopie memory identity Monument consciousness heterotopia This essay focuses on the efficacy of Walter Allward’s immense Canadian National Vimy Memorial built at Vimy Ridge in France and unveiled in 1936. Like other battlefield memorials located far from their primary audiences, the Vimy Memorial must deliberately intervene into Canadian consciousness in order to remain relevant. Drawing on Pierre Nora’s notion of “successive presents,” I examine the means by which that intervention occurs over time and how, also exacerbated by the often great distance between monument and audience, the monument functions as a heterotopic space. The essay also addresses types of memory and consciousness – state, national, collective, and individual – and their inherent malleability, and the points at which they might become fused. Cet article s’intéresse à l’impact de l’immense monument de Walter Allward, construit à Vimy Ridge en France et inauguré en 1936. Comme d’autres monuments commémoratifs situés sur les champs de bataille très loin des publics pour lesquels ils sont principalement destinés, le monument de Vimy doit pourtant toucher directement la conscience des Canadiens afin de jouer son rôle. En m’appuyant sur la notion de « présents successifs » de Pierre Nora, j’examine la manière dont cela se produit dans le temps, et comment, en dépit de la grande distance entre le monument et son public, Vimy fonctionne comme un espace hétérotopique tel que le décrit Michel Foucault. Cet article examine également les types de mémoire et de conscience – de l’Etat, nationale, collective, et individuelle – qui prennent de multiples formes mais qui peuvent à certains moments fusionner.
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topic mémoire
identité nationale
monument
conscience collective
hétérotopie
memory
identity
Monument
consciousness
heterotopia
spellingShingle mémoire
identité nationale
monument
conscience collective
hétérotopie
memory
identity
Monument
consciousness
heterotopia
Coutu, Joan
Re-inscribing a Monument: Vimy in the Canadian Consciousness
description This essay focuses on the efficacy of Walter Allward’s immense Canadian National Vimy Memorial built at Vimy Ridge in France and unveiled in 1936. Like other battlefield memorials located far from their primary audiences, the Vimy Memorial must deliberately intervene into Canadian consciousness in order to remain relevant. Drawing on Pierre Nora’s notion of “successive presents,” I examine the means by which that intervention occurs over time and how, also exacerbated by the often great distance between monument and audience, the monument functions as a heterotopic space. The essay also addresses types of memory and consciousness – state, national, collective, and individual – and their inherent malleability, and the points at which they might become fused.
author Coutu, Joan
author_facet Coutu, Joan
author_sort Coutu, Joan
title Re-inscribing a Monument: Vimy in the Canadian Consciousness
title_short Re-inscribing a Monument: Vimy in the Canadian Consciousness
title_full Re-inscribing a Monument: Vimy in the Canadian Consciousness
title_fullStr Re-inscribing a Monument: Vimy in the Canadian Consciousness
title_full_unstemmed Re-inscribing a Monument: Vimy in the Canadian Consciousness
title_sort re-inscribing a monument: vimy in the canadian consciousness
publisher Études canadiennes / Canadian Studies
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