Dominion Cartoon Satire as Trench Culture Narratives

Complaints, Endurance and Stoicism

Bibliographic Data

ID10473093
AuthorsJane Chapman (0000-0002-0735-7630, Lincoln University and Research Associate Wolfson College Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, corresponding author), Dan Ellin (Warwick University, Warwick, UK)
Year2014
Volume103
Issue2
Pages175-192
Publication date2014-03-04
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Round Table (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0035-8533 • E-ISSN: 1465-4008
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00358533.2014.898500
OpenAlexW1989731965
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited28

Although Dominion soldiers’ Great War field publications are relatively well known, the way troops created cartoon multi-panel formats in some of them has been neglected as a record of satirical social observation. Visual narrative humour provides a ‘bottom-up’ perspective for journalistic observations that in many cases capture the spirit of the army in terms of stoicism, buoyed by a culture of internal complaints. Troop concerns expressed in the early comic strips of Australians, Canadians, New Zealanders and British were similar. They shared a collective editorial purpose of morale boosting among the ranks through the use of everyday narratives that elevated the anti-heroism of the citizen soldier, portrayed as a transnational everyman in the service of empire. The regenerative value of disparagement humour provided a redefinition of courage as the very act of endurance on the Western Front

Archaeology · Art · Dominion · Literature · Narrative · Sociology · Stoicism · Classical Studies and Philology · Comics and Graphic Narratives · Gender Studies · History · World Wars: History, Literature, and Impact

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