BRITISH WRITING OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR by Rawlinson, Mark ISBN 0198184565
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Investigates representations of violence and the relationship of imaginative literature to propaganda and politics. A wide-ranging survey of familiar and forgotten wartime writers, this book focuses in greatest detail on the Blitz, military aviation, North Africa, war aims, POWs and the Holocaust.
'British Writing of the Second World War' is the first study to provide a detailed critical and historical survey of British literary culture in wartime. Concerned as much with war as with writing, it explores the significance of cultural representations of violence to the administration of the war effort. A theoretical account of the symbolic practices which connect military violence to policy provides a framework for analysing imaginative and documentary literature in its relations both to propaganda and to Peoples War ideals of social reconstruction. The book evaluates wartime fictions and memoirs in the context of official and unofficial discourses about military aviation, the Blitz, campaigns in North Africa, war aims, the conscript Army and the Home Front, Prisoners of War, and the Holocaust. It uncovers the processes by which the meanings the war had for participants were produced, and provides an extensive bibliographical resource for future scholarship.
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[edit] Title
BRITISH WRITING OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR
[edit] Author
Rawlinson, Mark
[edit] ISBN
0198184565
[edit] Published
27/04/2000
[edit] Publisher
Oxford University Press
[edit] Binding
hardback
[edit] Retail Price
57.5 (GBP)
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