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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... feel that you know what it must have been like because you know what it looked like . For those of you who feel guilty about surviving unharmed physically and also psychologi- cally you Subvert the Dominant Paradigm 27.
... feel that you know what it must have been like because you know what it looked like . For those of you who feel guilty about surviving unharmed physically and also psychologi- cally you Subvert the Dominant Paradigm 27.
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Miriam Cooke. guilty about surviving unharmed physically and also psychologi- cally you can feel partially vindicated ... feeling of being exempt from calamity stimulates interest in looking at painful pictures , and looking at them ...
Miriam Cooke. guilty about surviving unharmed physically and also psychologi- cally you can feel partially vindicated ... feeling of being exempt from calamity stimulates interest in looking at painful pictures , and looking at them ...
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... feeling runs high there is a strong wish to define a tradition " ( Showalter 1985b , 11 ) . The resort to a familiar war narrative and attitude is not re- stricted to governments and militaries who demand that the war they have just ...
... feeling runs high there is a strong wish to define a tradition " ( Showalter 1985b , 11 ) . The resort to a familiar war narrative and attitude is not re- stricted to governments and militaries who demand that the war they have just ...
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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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