The Falklands War

by D. Monaghan

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780333655818
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	09/14/1998
Series:	International Political Economy Ser.
Edition description:	1998
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

David Monaghan is Professor of English at Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements - Introduction - Margaret Thatcher and the Making of the Falklands Myth - Confronting the Icon: Portrayals of Margaret Thatcher in The Falklands Factor, Sink the Belgrano! and If... - Opportunists and Hooligans: Thatcherism in The Ploughman's Lunch and Arrivederci Millwall - Writing the Imaginary Britain: The Kingdom by the Sea and Coasting - Em-Bodying the Disembodied: Tumbledown, Resurrected and the Language of Chivalry - Ten Years After: An Ungentlemanly Act - Index