The Falklands War

Monaghan, D.

This book examines the debate which has long raged in Britain about the meaning of the Falklands War. Using literary critical methods, Monaghan examines how the Thatcherite reading of the war as a myth of British greatness reborn was developed through political speeches and journalistic writing. He then goes on to discuss a number of films, plays, cartoon strips and travel books which have subverted the dominant myth by finding national metaphors of a very different kind in the Falklands War.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 1998-09-14

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780333655818

DOI: 10.1057/9780230373709

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 208