Professor Jane Chapman Smile when Suffering: Cartoons from the Trenches, 1914-18
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British and Dominion soldiers’ Great War field publications are relatively well known, but the way troops created cartoon narratives has been neglected. The concerns of the lower ranks about medical services, discomforts, food and drink, leave, military routines, complaints about officers, and expectations versus emerging reality, all emerged as humour from adversity. The central comic character was the long suffering citizen soldier, portrayed as a source of entertainment and morale boosting.
Weblinks referred to in the talk are: http://youtu.be/zlUe1P8K7vY and http://youtu.be/zi4A6IJnlO0 |
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| Created: | 2013-10-24 11:07 |
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Informal Lunchtime Seminar Series
Wolfson College lunchtime seminar series |
| Publisher: | Wolfson College, Cambridge |
| Copyright: | Professor Jane Chapman |
| Language: | eng (English) |