The Falklands War [Hardcover]

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