The Great War and the Representation of the German Submarine in Argentine Illustrated Magazines. The Example of Caras y Caretas, El Hogar and Mundo Argentino
Abstract
During the First World War, Great Britain implemented a naval blockade to interrupt the supply of food and materials to Germany. The latter responded with a series of submarine campaigns, directed against the trade routes supplying the Allies. The international media made clear the destructive power of the U-boats when they published news of the sinkings and the accounts of the survivors. The present work deals with the representations of the submarine and the German submarine campaigns in the Argentine press, more precisely in Caras y Caretas, El Hogar, and Mundo Argentino. These illustrated weeklies, of great popularity and distribution, carried out an important coverage of the events, reflecting the interest of the society in the submarine and the generalized impact that it had reached in the domestic discourse.Downloads
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