The Falklands War
Description
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.
Keywords
HistoryWorld
1998Book
Author(s)David Monaghan
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK
ISBN9780333655818
LanguageEnglish
