Nadal trwa: trauma i pamięć I wojny światowej
It Still Goes On: Trauma and the Memory of the First World War

Summary/Abstract: Wilson describes the basic elements of representations of World War I: the suffering of soldiers, devastated battle grounds and the perspective of the witness. Referring to current research on trauma in the context of World War I he thematizes the stereotypical ways in which the Great War is commonly remembered – ways that exclude communication and maintain a sense of trauma. Wilson evaluates recent novels as well as film and television productions in order to analyse contemporary representations of a traumatic past impacting identity. His analysis focuses on cultural texts produced after the eightieth anniversary of the end of the Great War and cultural representations of the war that perpetuate trauma in Australia, Great Britain and Canada, constituting their citizens’ identities. Wilson treats these phenomena as a product of the capitalist entertainment industry and as an expression of the general longing to maintain traditional ideas about the past.

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