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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... political , to form what Mohanty calls a " common context of struggle . . . [ for r ] e- sistance is encoded in the practices of remembering and of writing . " As Algerian , Lebanese , Palestinian , and Iraqi women re - member their ...
... political , to form what Mohanty calls a " common context of struggle . . . [ for r ] e- sistance is encoded in the practices of remembering and of writing . " As Algerian , Lebanese , Palestinian , and Iraqi women re - member their ...
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... political actions and attitudes , seem oblivious to the new strategies and realities . In chapter five , " Flames of Fire in Qadisiya , " I consider the writ- ings of one of the major global conflicts of the 1980s , the Iraq - Iran War ...
... political actions and attitudes , seem oblivious to the new strategies and realities . In chapter five , " Flames of Fire in Qadisiya , " I consider the writ- ings of one of the major global conflicts of the 1980s , the Iraq - Iran War ...
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... political . For them , the social takes precedence . They have seen that victory in the political sphere has no necessary connection with societal change ; political victory brings few if any advantages to the lives of the people . Yet ...
... political . For them , the social takes precedence . They have seen that victory in the political sphere has no necessary connection with societal change ; political victory brings few if any advantages to the lives of the people . Yet ...
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... political entities having or aspiring to have a monopoly on armed force within their territory . The goal of war is definitive resolution — victory . Even when such a resolution is not reached , and it rarely is , it is often said to be ...
... political entities having or aspiring to have a monopoly on armed force within their territory . The goal of war is definitive resolution — victory . Even when such a resolution is not reached , and it rarely is , it is often said to be ...
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... politicians huddled around confer- ence tables . The captions are laconic , for example , " A meeting to find a solution " followed by the list of those in attendance ( 65 ) . Clearly , these men are the ones who are waging war and ...
... politicians huddled around confer- ence tables . The captions are laconic , for example , " A meeting to find a solution " followed by the list of those in attendance ( 65 ) . Clearly , these men are the ones who are waging war and ...
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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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