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.

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

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Book Title: The Falklands War
Authors: David Monaghan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230373709
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1998
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-65581-8Published: 14 September 1998
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-37370-9Published: 14 September 1998
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 208
Topics: World History, Global and Transnational History

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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: Kingdom by the Sea and Coasting

Em-Bodying the Disembodied: Tumbledown, Resurrected and the Language of Chivalry

Ten Years After: An Ungentlemanly Act

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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: Kingdom by the Sea and Coasting

Em-Bodying the Disembodied: Tumbledown, Resurrected and the Language of Chivalry

Ten Years After: An Ungentlemanly Act

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