👨‍🎓 School Days: Undertones of War

The uncanny in the trenches

Back in 2022 I found myself in a strange situation. My second Open University module (a literature year), my third assignment. It involved three texts from the reading list - Edmund Blunden’s First World War memoir Undertones of War, Ali Smith’s Hotel World, Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things - and each had its own theme upon which to base the essa…