Women and the War StoryUniversity of California Press, 1 sep. 2023 - 309 sidor In a book that radically and fundamentally revises the way we think about war, Miriam Cooke charts the emerging tradition of women's contributions to what she calls the "War Story," a genre formerly reserved for men. Concentrating on the contemporary literature of the Arab world, Cooke looks at how alternatives to the master narrative challenge the authority of experience and the permission to write. She shows how women who write themselves and their experiences into the War Story undo the masculine contract with violence, sexuality, and glory. There is no single War Story, Cooke concludes; the standard narrative—and with it the way we think about and conduct war—can be changed. As the traditional time, space, organization, and representation of war have shifted, so have ways of describing it. As drug wars, civil wars, gang wars, and ideological wars have moved into neighborhoods and homes, the line between combat zones and safe zones has blurred. Cooke shows how women's stories contest the acceptance of a dyadically structured world and break down the easy oppositions—home vs. front, civilian vs. combatant, war vs. peace, victory vs. defeat—that have framed, and ultimately promoted, war. |
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... civil war , my colleagues ' only objection was the value of the enterprise : did I really want to waste my time on these dames de salon ? Now , however , things have changed . As Arab women's writings are in- creasingly translated into ...
... civil war , my colleagues ' only objection was the value of the enterprise : did I really want to waste my time on these dames de salon ? Now , however , things have changed . As Arab women's writings are in- creasingly translated into ...
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... civil , revolu- tionary , drug , gang , feudal , ideological , but they are linked by the fact that they refuse the easy oppositions that had marked , in fact constituted , the War Story . There are risks attendant on the dis- mantling ...
... civil , revolu- tionary , drug , gang , feudal , ideological , but they are linked by the fact that they refuse the easy oppositions that had marked , in fact constituted , the War Story . There are risks attendant on the dis- mantling ...
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... civil war in the aftermath of the Israeli invasion of 1982. Women like Huda Barakat and Nur Salman , who had not written about the war until that point , join others like Emily Nasrallah , who wrote throughout , to urge the national ...
... civil war in the aftermath of the Israeli invasion of 1982. Women like Huda Barakat and Nur Salman , who had not written about the war until that point , join others like Emily Nasrallah , who wrote throughout , to urge the national ...
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... civil war that had raged in the eastern Mediterranean for five years . I was surprised to find that literary activity was intense , that the war had inspired many to write and paint . Women and men were churning out novels , short ...
... civil war that had raged in the eastern Mediterranean for five years . I was surprised to find that literary activity was intense , that the war had inspired many to write and paint . Women and men were churning out novels , short ...
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... civil war to build the Lebanese War Story . The volume is a concrete example of how the confusion of war can be streamlined into the black and white certainties of a binary narrative . Let us look at the way in which Harb Lubnan uses ...
... civil war to build the Lebanese War Story . The volume is a concrete example of how the confusion of war can be streamlined into the black and white certainties of a binary narrative . Let us look at the way in which Harb Lubnan uses ...
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Culture Degree Zero | 66 |
Silence Is the Real Crime | 116 |
Talking Democracy | 165 |
Flames of Fire in Qadisiya | 218 |
Reimagining Lebanon | 265 |
Conclusion | 289 |
Notes | 299 |
Cited Works | 321 |
Index | 347 |
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