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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... on what , throughout my life , women halfway across the world have been writing on war . Does their participation give them a special right to speak ? More than most human activities , war has been considered 2 Introduction.
... on what , throughout my life , women halfway across the world have been writing on war . Does their participation give them a special right to speak ? More than most human activities , war has been considered 2 Introduction.
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... participants to be " just , " the other two were not . The Algerians had to rise up as a people against the French if they were to gain independence ; the Palestinians , particularly in the post - 1967 period , realized that they had to ...
... participants to be " just , " the other two were not . The Algerians had to rise up as a people against the French if they were to gain independence ; the Palestinians , particularly in the post - 1967 period , realized that they had to ...
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... participation the awareness that if political victory is to have any meaning at all , it must entail social transformation . Armed with this awareness , these women improvise ways of participating that are unlike those of their male ...
... participation the awareness that if political victory is to have any meaning at all , it must entail social transformation . Armed with this awareness , these women improvise ways of participating that are unlike those of their male ...
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... participating in eliminating such undesirable elements . He is masculinized in this act of witnessing and feminiz- ing , and so are we . It is this masculinization that is the sine qua non of victory , as we saw on the back cover . We ...
... participating in eliminating such undesirable elements . He is masculinized in this act of witnessing and feminiz- ing , and so are we . It is this masculinization that is the sine qua non of victory , as we saw on the back cover . We ...
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... participation as " a humanitarian desire for a world in which poverty , injustice , and misery might be eliminated . " Ben- son quotes Malraux as believing that the war could restore to the intellectual " his fertility , his fundamental ...
... participation as " a humanitarian desire for a world in which poverty , injustice , and misery might be eliminated . " Ben- son quotes Malraux as believing that the war could restore to the intellectual " his fertility , his fundamental ...
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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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