… is on an opposing demand of the nation: if the national narrative operates by effacing the
violence of its past, how are we to understand the Battle of Vimy Ridge, unabashedly …

… In his insightful “’Some Great Crisis’: Vimy as Originary Violence,” Zacharias shows how a …
erasure of colonial violence, developed in Canada after Confederation until Vimy provided the …

… 4 Robert Zacharias, “‘Some Great Crisis’: Vimy As Originary Crisis,” in Shifting The Ground
of Literary Studies in Canada ed. Robert Zacharias and Smaro Kamboureli (Waterloo: Wilfred …

… originary violence is then used to command an ongoing obedience and to suppress dissent:
“a violent … and yes, to efface the acts of violence that have followed its inception” (118). If the …

… memory of an aberrant violence which followed neither the … the novel, yet like the original
it also renders the experience of … According to Thiessen, Vimy deals with questions such as “…

… score of source books about Vimy and Canada’s … Vimy as Canada’s originary moment, the
rhetoric of myth was eventually accepted as a historical given by Canadian citizens. The Vimy …

… ‘’Some Great Crisis’: Vimy as Originary Violence’ – a look at the trajectory of governmental
control in cultural history, by Monika Kin Ganon and Yasmin Jiwani, by Larissa Lai (previously …

… this specific legacy of violence in a comparative framework. The … , the capture of the
impregnable Vimy Ridge on 9 April 1917, … Its strategic significance was limited, yet the story of …

… Original battle plans, personal accounts and scene setting … Canada needed to endure a
violent struggle on a significant … are welded together by some great crisis of storm and stress. …

… Vimy as Originary Violence” that the sheer weight of discourse repeating the significance of
the battle of Vimy … on the authority gained by the violence of Vimy.”56 Though Zacharias goes …