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.
About the AuthorDavid Monaghan is Professor of English at Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Book InformationISBN 9780333655818
Author D. MonaghanFormat Hardback
Page Count 208
Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave Macmillan