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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... importance of the use of violence in the struggle for independence ; the indispensability of women to national liberation . Palestinian women writers took the latter a step further to claim that not only were women as actors ...
... importance of the use of violence in the struggle for independence ; the indispensability of women to national liberation . Palestinian women writers took the latter a step further to claim that not only were women as actors ...
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... . 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 importance of remaining on the soil Introduction ୨.
... . 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 importance of remaining on the soil Introduction ୨.
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Miriam Cooke. to urge the national importance of remaining on the soil of Leb- anon . In their texts they have begun ... important . The situation of women in the anticolonial war is different from that of women in postcolonial wars . In ...
Miriam Cooke. to urge the national importance of remaining on the soil of Leb- anon . In their texts they have begun ... important . The situation of women in the anticolonial war is different from that of women in postcolonial wars . In ...
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... important in the entire book because they are there on the coffee table , next to the afternoon teacup and the preprandial snacks . Family members and their guests can linger over two moments : the middle and the end of the war . But ...
... important in the entire book because they are there on the coffee table , next to the afternoon teacup and the preprandial snacks . Family members and their guests can linger over two moments : the middle and the end of the war . But ...
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... important than the fact that our photographer is always there at the right moment ( Fig . 28 ) : a man is kidnapped on his return from shopping , and al - Sayyid catches the moment of shock that we later revisit ( 65 ) . Two photos of ...
... important than the fact that our photographer is always there at the right moment ( Fig . 28 ) : a man is kidnapped on his return from shopping , and al - Sayyid catches the moment of shock that we later revisit ( 65 ) . Two photos of ...
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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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