Composing the War: Nation and Self in Narratives of the Royal New Zealand Air Force's Deployment to the 1991 Gulf Conflict
Self and nation, popularly considered to be of natural origin in the Western world, are in fact constructed through social processes. One of these processes is narrative: the stories that purport to describe the nation and the self actually bring them into being. This thesis argues that national ide...
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University of Canterbury. Sociology and Anthropology
2008
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10092/1695 |