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Dominion cartoon satire as trench culture narratives : complaints, endurance and stoicism
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Chapman, Jane and Ellin, Dan (2014) Dominion cartoon satire as trench culture narratives : complaints, endurance and stoicism. The Round Table, Volume 103 (Number 2). pp. 175-192. doi:10.1080/00358533.2014.898500 ISSN 0035-8533.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00358533.2014.898500
Abstract
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.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > History | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | The Round Table | ||||
Publisher: | Routledge | ||||
ISSN: | 0035-8533 | ||||
Official Date: | 4 April 2014 | ||||
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Volume: | Volume 103 | ||||
Number: | Number 2 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 175-192 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1080/00358533.2014.898500 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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