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Martha Gellhorn: the War Writer in the Field and in the Text (Hardcover)
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Martha Gellhorn: the War Writer in the Field and in the Text (Hardcover)
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St. Louis-born Martha Gellhorn (1908-98) was the doyenne of
twentieth century war correspondence. Opinionated, honest and
unafraid, she covered conflicts from the Spanish Civil War to
Reagan's wars in Central America in the 1980s. Martha Gellhorn: The
War Writer in the Field and in the Text is the first critical study
of her Second World War fiction and journalism. How war is
represented matters vitally to all of us. Often overlooked in
accounts of war literature is the writer's precise position in
relation to battle and his or her resultant standing in the text.
Kate McLoughlin traces Gellhorn's daring attempts to access the war
zone and her constructions of the woman war correspondent in her
despatches, novels, short stories and play. Drawing on unpublished
letters, close attention is given to Gellhorn's rivalry with Ernest
Hemingway (the two were married from 1940 to 1945) over reaching
the Normandy beaches on D-Day and its textual outcome in the pages
of Collier's magazine. McLoughlin goes on to examine Gellhorn's
increasingly negative portrayals of the glamorous female war
reporter and to suggest why such disillusionment might have set in.
constitutes a case-study for scholars working on war
representation. It will be of interest not only to students of
literature, but also to those taking courses in journalism, media
studies and women's studies.
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