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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... . " He's lost . . . where's my husband ? " 20. They weep for everything 21. Childhood survives to carry the future 22. He carried him in the first stage 23. And his mother carried him in the difficult stage vii Acknowledgments.
... . " He's lost . . . where's my husband ? " 20. They weep for everything 21. Childhood survives to carry the future 22. He carried him in the first stage 23. And his mother carried him in the difficult stage vii Acknowledgments.
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Miriam Cooke. 23. And his mother carried him in the difficult stage 24. [ Uncaptioned full - page image ] 25. [ Uncaptioned full - page image ] 26. The Holiday Inn sniper 27. Photographers and journalists 28. They grabbed hold of his ...
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... Mother , the Spartan Mother , or the Amazon ? How can such iconoclasts then fashion a new persona : the woman who has lived war not as a victim but as a survivor , who may not have borne arms but who has played all the other roles a war ...
... Mother , the Spartan Mother , or the Amazon ? How can such iconoclasts then fashion a new persona : the woman who has lived war not as a victim but as a survivor , who may not have borne arms but who has played all the other roles a war ...
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... mothers — who have used the role of mother to enter public space whence they demand justice . These women , who are not substituting for male f1ghters but who have evolved their own way of fighting , are demanding that the meanings at ...
... mothers — who have used the role of mother to enter public space whence they demand justice . These women , who are not substituting for male f1ghters but who have evolved their own way of fighting , are demanding that the meanings at ...
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... mothers , the latter category including the Mater Dolorosa ( the weeping madonna ) , the Patriotic Mother ( the ever - ready womb for war ) , the Spartan Mother ( the jingoistic mother who prefers her sons dead to defeated ) . The War ...
... mothers , the latter category including the Mater Dolorosa ( the weeping madonna ) , the Patriotic Mother ( the ever - ready womb for war ) , the Spartan Mother ( the jingoistic mother who prefers her sons dead to defeated ) . The War ...
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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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