The War at Home: Representing the Iraq War in Ali Smith's "The Accidental"
Abstract
This essay examines how Ali Smith formally represents theBritish role in the Iraq war and the fractured public consensus around
that event in her 2005 novel "The Accidental."
References
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France, Louise. “Life Stories.” The Guardian. 22 May 2005. Print. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2005/may/22/fiction.bookerprize2005
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