Fighting Fictions: War, Narrative and National Identity - Softcover

Foster, Kevin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0745309550 ISBN 13: 9780745309552

Publisher: Pluto Press, 1998

Synopsis

This text applies theories of contemporary cultural studies to the analysis of wars. The central proposition is that, just as wars produce fictions, so the apprehension and experience of wars themselves - in the real world - are substantially the products of fictions of nationhood, history, race, gender and class. The book offers an analysis of a broad range of war fictions - popular fiction, journals, memoirs, contemporary press coverage, histories and official government reports, as well as photographic, graphic and cinematic treatments - drawn from or reflecting on the conflicts in Vietnam, the two world wars, the Spanish Civil War and the conflicts in the Gulf and the Falklands. It sets out the relations between fiction, myth and ideology in the construction and deconstruction of war.

About this title

About the Author:

Margaret Davies has published several works in legal theory and feminism, including Asking the Question (Sweet and Maxwell, 1994). She is currently senior lecturer in Law at the Flinders University of South Australia.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pluto Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0745309550
• ISBN 13: 9780745309552
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192