Side Show or Second Front?
The Legibility of Battle in North Africa
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23476972 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mark Rawlinson (0000-0002-9775-4081, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Pages | 110-138 |
| Publication date | 2000-04-27 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | British writing of the Second World War (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198184560.003.0005 |
| OpenAlex | W2503832506 |
| ISBN | 9780198184560 |
| Language | EN |
This chapter takes the desert of North Africa as the site of its inquiry into how the battlefield was signified in different genres of official and literary writing. Keith Douglas's visceral poetry and prose reveal paradoxical parallels to military redescription. Readings of the New Zealander Dan Davin's wartime fiction and post-war official military history demonstrate the extent to which the battlefield, the scene of killing, is also a verbal and iconic construct.
Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Battle · Battlefield · Construct (python library) · Desert (philosophy) · Front (military) · Geography · Interdiction · Legibility · Literature · Parallels · Poetry · Political science · Visual arts · African history and culture studies · Computer Science · Engineering · History · Law
| Highly cited | No |
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