Which People's War?
National Identity and Citizenship in Wartime Britain 1939-1945
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 8 May 2003
- ISBN 9780199255726
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages342 pages
- Size 242x163x25 mm
- Weight 738 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 14 halftones 0
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Short description:
What did it mean to be British during the 'People's War'? Professor Rose uses material from newspapers, diaries, novels and letters to examine popular notions of citizenship on the home front. She shows that what we now mean by 'identity politics' was alive and well in the 1940s and that any singular conception of 'Britishness' was extremely fragile.
MoreLong description:
Which People's War? examines how national belonging, or British national identity, was envisaged in the public culture of the World War II home front. Using materials from newspapers, magazines, films, novels, diaries, letters, and all sorts of public documents, it explores such questions as: who was included as 'British' and what did it mean to be British? How did the British describe themselves as a singular people, and what were the consequences of those depictions? It also examines the several meanings of citizenship elaborated in various discussions concerning the British nation at war. This investigation of the powerful constructions of national identity and understandings of citizenship circulating in Britain during the Second World War exposes their multiple and contradictory consequences at the time. It reveals the fragility of any singular conception of 'Britishness' even during a war that involved the total mobilization of the country's citizenry and cost 400,000 British civilian lives.
The subjects covered are familiar enough but most readers will come across something new.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
Introduction: National Identity and Citizenship
'Who Killed Cock Robin?': The Wartime Nation and Class
'Good-time' Girls and Quintessential Aliens
'Be Truly Feminine': Contradictory Obligations and Ambivalent Representations
Temperate Heroes: Masculinity on the Home Front
Geographies of the Nation
'The End is Bound to Come': Race, Empire, and Nation
Conclusions and Afterthoughts
