Precarious Selves in Contemporary British War Novels

The popular song which speaks to popular needs is not folk song, with its celebration of seasons, harvests and village fairs, but urban music hall song, up to date and racy, jolly

Marshall points out that by the time Schwab’s text appeared in English translation in 1984, with Said’s Introduction, “the historical record of the circumstances” in which

bitterly sarcastic presentation of the war as a pierrot show is intended to echo the tone of the dissenting soldiers’ songs, though unlike the soldier song repertoire, the

The broadcasting of Tumbledown sufficed to bury for a long time other fiction films on the topic and it took years for the script of The Falklands Play to be turned into a film..

He has also edited several volumes of essays with Susana Onega: Trauma and Ethics in Contemporary British Literature (Rodopi, 2010), Trauma and Romance in

This article studies four contemporary Irish childhood narratives which each in its own way exemplify the main features of the genre: Hugo Hamilton’s The Speckled People,

The need to gain and maintain general acceptance for the waging of a war in which casualties would reach unimaginable heights involved what was no doubt the most ambitious

As I will show, the London 2012 Opening Ceremony and Skyfall are two high-profile examples of British contem- porary popular culture that tell tales of empire at a time when the