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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... University of Vermont at Burlington . To individuals : Evelyne Accad for friendship , intense conversations , and the shar- ing of inaccessible texts ; Francine d'Amico for introducing me to the IR and the ix Introduction.
... University of Vermont at Burlington . To individuals : Evelyne Accad for friendship , intense conversations , and the shar- ing of inaccessible texts ; Francine d'Amico for introducing me to the IR and the ix Introduction.
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... individual women's different experiences , beliefs , choices , and aspirations . Clearly I am implicated in what Chandra Mohanty calls the " global hegemony of western scholarship — i.e . , the production , publication , distribution ...
... individual women's different experiences , beliefs , choices , and aspirations . Clearly I am implicated in what Chandra Mohanty calls the " global hegemony of western scholarship — i.e . , the production , publication , distribution ...
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... individual story . I am interested in the choices that Arab women make as they pick up their pens to write about their experiences in wars others declare they have lived as noncombatants . How do they begin to imagine narratives that do ...
... individual story . I am interested in the choices that Arab women make as they pick up their pens to write about their experiences in wars others declare they have lived as noncombatants . How do they begin to imagine narratives that do ...
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... individuals . In these postcolonial wars , women generally criticize men's ways of fighting regardless of their personal attitudes to the war in question . They object to the ways in which men have generally overlooked their involvement ...
... individuals . In these postcolonial wars , women generally criticize men's ways of fighting regardless of their personal attitudes to the war in question . They object to the ways in which men have generally overlooked their involvement ...
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... individual to assume responsibility for ending the war . Responsibility in the women's writings entailed duties toward others , duties that had to be fulfilled so that the war might stop . In the men's writings , responsibility adhered ...
... individual to assume responsibility for ending the war . Responsibility in the women's writings entailed duties toward others , duties that had to be fulfilled so that the war might stop . In the men's writings , responsibility adhered ...
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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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