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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... tell with such high zest To children ardent for some desperate glory , The old Lie : Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori . This poem tied me to a man twice my age whose agony seared my innocence . Today I look back fondly on that ...
... tell with such high zest To children ardent for some desperate glory , The old Lie : Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori . This poem tied me to a man twice my age whose agony seared my innocence . Today I look back fondly on that ...
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... tell an 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 ...
... tell an 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 ...
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... tell their stories , because stories influence how the next wars will be fought — and then told . Until quite ... telling , and for his passionate plea to believe the " crazy stuff " and to resign ourselves to the fact that " in a true ...
... tell their stories , because stories influence how the next wars will be fought — and then told . Until quite ... telling , and for his passionate plea to believe the " crazy stuff " and to resign ourselves to the fact that " in a true ...
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... Tell the War Story War is messy but until recently it was not told that way . Men have generally turned their messy war experiences into coherent stories , poems , memoirs , films , and photograph albums and even into official records ...
... Tell the War Story War is messy but until recently it was not told that way . Men have generally turned their messy war experiences into coherent stories , poems , memoirs , films , and photograph albums and even into official records ...
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Miriam Cooke. enlightening example of how to tell the Lebanese War Story might be through photographs . In 1980 and then again in 1982 , I had noticed war albums with their full - page pictures of blood and guts in Beirut living rooms ...
Miriam Cooke. enlightening example of how to tell the Lebanese War Story might be through photographs . In 1980 and then again in 1982 , I had noticed war albums with their full - page pictures of blood and guts in Beirut living rooms ...
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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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