The Falklands War (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780333655818)

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.

Author: D. Monaghan
ISBN-10: 0333655818
ISBN-13: 9780333655818
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 09/14/1998
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.69d