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Jachimiak, Peter Hughes. "“Woolly Bears and Toffee Apples”: History, Memory, and Masculinity in Charley’s War." The Lion and the Unicorn 31.(2007): 162–75. Added by: joachim (8/13/09, 2:45 AM) Last edited by: joachim (3/9/13, 11:30 AM) |
| Resource type: Journal Article Language: en: English Peer reviewed DOI: 10.1353/uni.2007.0020 BibTeX citation key: Jachimiak2007 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: "Charley’s War", Children’s and young adults’ comics, Colquhoun. Joe, Gender, Memoria, Mills. Pat, United Kingdom, War Creators: Jachimiak Collection: The Lion and the Unicorn |
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Written by Pat Mills, and with artwork by Joe Colquhoun, Charley’s War, published in Battle-Action (Jan 1979–Oct 1986), is an anti-war strip within a boy’s pro-war comic. Concerned with the exploits of Charley Bourne, a ‘boy soldier’ of the First World War, it is re-read as an insight into the existence of multiple masculinities within children’s texts. Furthermore, as a ‘site of memory’ – where history, memory and masculinity converge – Charley’s War readily facilitates a form of remembrance whereby such cultural artefacts as children’s comics are on par with more well-known monuments.
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