Chapman, Jane and Ellin, Dan
(2014)
Dominion cartoon satire as trench culture narratives: complaints, endurance and stoicism.
The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs, 103
(2).
pp. 175-192.
ISSN 0035-8533
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Item Type: | Article |
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Item Status: | Live Archive |
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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.
Additional Information: | Special Issue: The First World War and the Empire-Commonwealth |
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Keywords: | First World War, Canadian, Australian, New Zealander, Trench culture, Cartoons, Trench newspapers, Humour, Courage, Western Front, bmjcheckacceptemailed, NotOAChecked |
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Subjects: | V Historical and Philosophical studies > V145 Modern History 1900-1919 |
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Divisions: | College of Arts > School of English & Journalism > School of English & Journalism (Journalism) |
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Relationships: | http://purl.org/dc/terms/hasVersion | http://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/17885/ |
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ID Code: | 16064 |
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Deposited On: | 24 Nov 2014 16:06 |
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