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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... later I spent the summer and fall in a Lebanon still shaken by its first serious military encounter with its southern neighbor . In 1980 I returned to Lebanon as a stringer for the London - based Middle East magazine . I chose to ...
... later I spent the summer and fall in a Lebanon still shaken by its first serious military encounter with its southern neighbor . In 1980 I returned to Lebanon as a stringer for the London - based Middle East magazine . I chose to ...
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... later I am trying to borrow meaning from this fragment that sur- vives , trying to understand how his opposition from within the war sheds light on what , throughout my life , women halfway across the world have been writing on war ...
... later I am trying to borrow meaning from this fragment that sur- vives , trying to understand how his opposition from within the war sheds light on what , throughout my life , women halfway across the world have been writing on war ...
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... later period so as to frame the question of war in the postcolonial period . To use the Lebanese war as a prism is to acknowledge its difference from these other wars but also its cen- trality to their interpretation . Two of these wars ...
... later period so as to frame the question of war in the postcolonial period . To use the Lebanese war as a prism is to acknowledge its difference from these other wars but also its cen- trality to their interpretation . Two of these wars ...
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... later : ] The war has ended . " The writer urges the reader to look to the present and the future which must guarantee four aims : that Lebanon remain independent and united ; that it be part of a pan - Arab ethos ; that it no longer ...
... later : ] The war has ended . " The writer urges the reader to look to the present and the future which must guarantee four aims : that Lebanon remain independent and united ; that it be part of a pan - Arab ethos ; that it no longer ...
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... later revisit ( 65 ) . Two photos of planes : in one , it has just landed with its cargo of flour ; in the next , the charred remains are recorded still smoking ( 119 ) . We are not restricted to painful emotions , we can also ...
... later revisit ( 65 ) . Two photos of planes : in one , it has just landed with its cargo of flour ; in the next , the charred remains are recorded still smoking ( 119 ) . We are not restricted to painful emotions , we can also ...
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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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