The Military Memoir in British Imperial Culture: The Case of Malaya
Author(s)
Newsinger, John
Abstract
Military memoirs of the 1948-1960 Malayan Emergency illustrates the importance of imperialism and militarism to British culture. The memoirs tell a story about young British soldiers fighting a foreign enemy in an exotic location. Brits fought with Communist guerrillas against the Japanese. The memoirs are written to build up to the climax, when the Brits kill the enemy in the jungle, thus ensuring a notion of victory in the imperial imagination.
