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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... cultural paradigms , and how hard I must struggle to see the strange so as not to reinscribe what I challenge ; Ghada al - Samman for her unfailing interest and thoughtfulness in sending me books that she thought , correctly , might ...
... cultural paradigms , and how hard I must struggle to see the strange so as not to reinscribe what I challenge ; Ghada al - Samman for her unfailing interest and thoughtfulness in sending me books that she thought , correctly , might ...
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... cultural practices , such as veiling , clitoridectomy and foot binding have been linked to Euro- American cultural imperialism . Is there a way to work together without suspicion and silencing ? My answer has been to focus on literature ...
... cultural practices , such as veiling , clitoridectomy and foot binding have been linked to Euro- American cultural imperialism . Is there a way to work together without suspicion and silencing ? My answer has been to focus on literature ...
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... cultural context . It is clearly a sequel to War's Other Voices , but it is also a departure from it in that it interrogates more deeply the conditions that enable the production of particular kinds of war texts . In the earlier work I ...
... cultural context . It is clearly a sequel to War's Other Voices , but it is also a departure from it in that it interrogates more deeply the conditions that enable the production of particular kinds of war texts . In the earlier work I ...
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... cultural but political , to form what Mohanty calls a " common context of struggle . . . [ for r ] e- sistance is encoded in the practices of remembering and of writing . " As Algerian , Lebanese , Palestinian , and Iraqi women re ...
... cultural but political , to form what Mohanty calls a " common context of struggle . . . [ for r ] e- sistance is encoded in the practices of remembering and of writing . " As Algerian , Lebanese , Palestinian , and Iraqi women re ...
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... cultural cross- ing , is that a recognition of our own strangeness will not serve to silence but will rather allow for the proliferation of multiple stories each of which will contribute to the flourishing of shared under- standings ...
... cultural cross- ing , is that a recognition of our own strangeness will not serve to silence but will rather allow for the proliferation of multiple stories each of which will contribute to the flourishing of shared under- standings ...
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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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