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In recent years, the US-led invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq have had an impact on the UK rivalled only by Brexit and the global financial crisis. For people at home, the wars were ever-present in the media yet remained distant and difficult to apprehend. Janina Wierzoch offers an analytical survey of British contemporary war narratives in novels, drama, film, and television that seek to make sense of the experience. The study shows how the narratives, instead of reflecting on the UK`s role as invader, portray war as invading the British home. Home loses its post-Cold War sense of "permanent peace" and is recast as a home/front where war once again becomes part of what it means to be "us".

Home/Fronts – Contemporary War in British Literature, Drama, and Film

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In recent years, the US-led invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq have had an impact on the UK rivalled only by... Read more

    Publisher: Transcript Verlag
    Publication Date: 08/12/2021
    ISBN13: 9783837651874, 978-3837651874
    ISBN10: 3837651878

    Number of Pages: 286

    Non Fiction , ELT & Literary Studies , Education

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    In recent years, the US-led invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq have had an impact on the UK rivalled only by Brexit and the global financial crisis. For people at home, the wars were ever-present in the media yet remained distant and difficult to apprehend. Janina Wierzoch offers an analytical survey of British contemporary war narratives in novels, drama, film, and television that seek to make sense of the experience. The study shows how the narratives, instead of reflecting on the UK`s role as invader, portray war as invading the British home. Home loses its post-Cold War sense of "permanent peace" and is recast as a home/front where war once again becomes part of what it means to be "us".

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