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The Many Facets of History: A Study on the Accounts of the Dunkirk Evacuation
DU Xing-chi
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5836/2024.06.002
Faculty of English Language and Culture, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, China
This paper adopts a New Historicism approach to examine the shaping of the history of the Dunkirk evacuation through an analysis of Winston Churchill’s historic speech We Shall Fight on the Beaches, Ian McEwan’s novel Atonement, and Christopher Nolan’s film Dunkirk. The research reveals that by uncovering and representing the neglected stories of marginalized groups in Atonement and Dunkirk, new evidentiary threads both enrich and contest the History embodied in Churchill’s speech. Consequently, these alternative accounts both challenge and complement the prevailing historical discourse.
Dunkirk evacuation, The History, histories
Journal of Literature and Art Studies, June 2024, Vol. 14, No. 6, 404-409
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