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- Title
Modern witnesses: foreign correspondents, geopolitical vision, and the First World War.
- Authors
Farish, Matthew
- Abstract
The First World War was the first modern, mediated conflict. In this paper I argue that British correspondents on the Western front attempting to accurately witness the war encountered a crisis of representation and visuality. They occupied a particularly unstable position between the many sites and points of view within a cubist landscape of shattered geographies and unstable boundaries. Their writings, though rich in masculinist and nationalistic accounts of heroism, also contain a newer perspective characterized by the failure to fit these older narratives into the inhuman, incomprehensible spaces of modern war.
- Subjects
WORLD War I; FOREIGN correspondents; 20TH century history
- Publication
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 2001, Vol 26, Issue 3, p273
- ISSN
0020-2754
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1475-5661.00022