The creation and management of public order through shared meaning is in itself profoundly dramatic. Clarke notes how Churchill’s wartime speeches (like those of Shakespeare’s Henry V) appeal to a sense of performance which constitutes history in the making: ‘Rather than minimising the threat of invasion, he dramatised it’, projecting himself into the future and flattering by association his fellow members of ‘the British Empireand its commonwealth’ that this would stand as ‘their finest hour’. British history has often dealt with challenges to homogeneous national identity by ‘ignoring’ them and marginalising dissenting voices into ultimately supportive foils for the dramatic advancement of self-styled protagonists: ‘Churchill and Orwell slipped into a well-established convention of illicitly, implicitly conscripting all Britons into a pageant of English history, with a few tartan-clad spear-carriers and Celtic by standers, presumed to be muttering the Welsh for “rhubarb”’. [download]
Format : Ebook.Pdf
Tidak ada komentar:
Posting Komentar