The Falklands War: Myth and Countermyth
David Monaghan - The Falklands War: Myth and Countermyth
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (June 1998) | ISBN: 0333655818 | English | 208 pages | PDF | 20.01 MB
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (June 1998) | ISBN: 0333655818 | English | 208 pages | PDF | 20.01 MB
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.