| Martha Gellhorn: The War Writer in the Field and in the Text Contributor(s): McLoughlin, Kate (Author) |
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ISBN: 0719076366 ISBN-13: 9780719076367 Publisher: Manchester University Press OUR PRICE: $123.50 Product Type: Hardcover Published: July 2007 Annotation: Martha Gellhorn 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." "This" "is the first critical study of her Second World War fiction and journalism. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Television - General - Literary Collections | American - General |
| Dewey: 813.52 |
| Physical Information: 1.08" H x 6.51" W x 9.47" (1.32 lbs) 288 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Martha Gellhorn 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. 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 Drawing on unpublished letters, close attention is given to Gellhorn's rivalry with Ernest Hemingway (the two were married from 1940 to 1945) over reaching the Normandy beaches on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 suggests why such disillusionment might have set in. |