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. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1997. 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 lite |
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... claim to truth but that history is made up of multiple stories , many of them herstories , which emanate from and then reconstruct events . Each story told by someone who experienced a war , or by someone who saw some- one who ...
... claim to truth but that history is made up of multiple stories , many of them herstories , which emanate from and then reconstruct events . Each story told by someone who experienced a war , or by someone who saw some- one who ...
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... claim their war experiences as combat . It is the growing understanding of the ways in which patriarchy seizes and then articulates women's ex- periences so that they will be seem to be marginal and apolitical that now drives women as ...
... claim their war experiences as combat . It is the growing understanding of the ways in which patriarchy seizes and then articulates women's ex- periences so that they will be seem to be marginal and apolitical that now drives women as ...
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... claim that not only were women as actors indispensable to the nationalist revolution but so was feminism as an ideology of radical social change . The poetry , autobiographies , novels , and short stories of Fadwa Tuqan , Sahar Khalifa ...
... claim that not only were women as actors indispensable to the nationalist revolution but so was feminism as an ideology of radical social change . The poetry , autobiographies , novels , and short stories of Fadwa Tuqan , Sahar Khalifa ...
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... claim innocence of collaboration with an evil regime ? What are we to make of the writer's responsibility to society ? Can patronized but also terrorized writers question the validity of a patriotic war ? How do we read such texts ...
... claim innocence of collaboration with an evil regime ? What are we to make of the writer's responsibility to society ? Can patronized but also terrorized writers question the validity of a patriotic war ? How do we read such texts ...
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... claims : " This is exactly what happened . Here it is between the two covers of a book " ( 4 ) . Above all , we — unlike those who merely lived through the war but were not privileged to share this ubiquitous vision — are allowed the ...
... claims : " This is exactly what happened . Here it is between the two covers of a book " ( 4 ) . Above all , we — unlike those who merely lived through the war but were not privileged to share this ubiquitous vision — are allowed the ...
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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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