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This high quality Kindle edition reproduces exactly the page formatting and numbering of the original paperback. This book analyses fiction, poetry, song, drama and film that deal directly with the Falklands-Malvinas conflict. In Argentina and in the United Kingdom, cultural historians and literary critics have occasionally addressed and sought to account for the impact of the 1982 war on the creative-imaginative and artistic output of their respective cultures. Habitually, they have done so in isolation or, at best, with cursory cross-referencing to "the other side". This study looks beyond national frontiers to consider not just the so-called Falklands-Malvinas factor in politics but the conflict's multiple effects in literature and the arts worldwide.Whilst not overlooking the literatures of Argentina and Britain, indeed using them as a point of departure and of continuing reference, Bernard McGuirk has also explored the international resonance in literary and other creative representations of this last of the traditional wars, as the conflict has been dubbed. Whether from France, Italy, Brazil or the United States, for instance, or from deeply problematic spaces in-between, suc

Author
Bernard McGuirk
Publisher
Critical, Cultural and Communications Press; New Venture
Published
2007
Language
EN
ISBN
9781602710023
Updated
2026-03-25

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