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- Title
The Crimean War and Its Afterlife by Lara Kriegel (review).
- Authors
Voyles, Katherine
- Abstract
In Seacole's writing of her own life, Kriegel finds how as a healer and hotelier Seacole exposes systematic racism among the British and the bureaucratic mismanagement of the war. In this way, Kriegel animates what the war meant in its own day, how that meaning was shifted by the reality of other wars, and how those meanings persist even now in a cyclical, not linear, way because she constantly returns to the nineteenth century before moving forward through time. Seacole's own memoir, I Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands i , is the linchpin for Kriegel's final chapter.
- Subjects
CRIMEAN War, 1853-1856; AFTERLIFE; HISTORICAL analysis; RACE identity
- Publication
Victorian Review, 2022, Vol 48, Issue 2, p331
- ISSN
0848-1512
- Publication type
Interview
- DOI
10.1353/vcr.2022.a900631