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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... transformations in the gender arrangements of the U.S. military ; Kristine Stiles for pushing me toward the visual ; Klaus Theweleit for urging me to work on propaganda and to look for its fantasy ; Susan Thorn for a sobering ...
... transformations in the gender arrangements of the U.S. military ; Kristine Stiles for pushing me toward the visual ; Klaus Theweleit for urging me to work on propaganda and to look for its fantasy ; Susan Thorn for a sobering ...
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... transformed consciousness . Women must fight to retain the au- thority to write about an experience that they are supposed not to have had . In chapter one , " Subvert the Dominant Paradigm , " I discuss the persistence of the War Story ...
... transformed consciousness . Women must fight to retain the au- thority to write about an experience that they are supposed not to have had . In chapter one , " Subvert the Dominant Paradigm , " I discuss the persistence of the War Story ...
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... transformation . The men did write and they acted on their writing . It was only in the 1980s , when the fundamentalist Front Islamique de Salut and their armed counterparts began to mount lethal attacks in their war against their ...
... transformation . The men did write and they acted on their writing . It was only in the 1980s , when the fundamentalist Front Islamique de Salut and their armed counterparts began to mount lethal attacks in their war against their ...
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... transformation . Armed with this awareness , these women improvise ways of participating that are unlike those of ... transforming the meanings others have traditionally attached to what they have done and to who they are , demanding ...
... transformation . Armed with this awareness , these women improvise ways of participating that are unlike those of ... transforming the meanings others have traditionally attached to what they have done and to who they are , demanding ...
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... transformed it into the clarity of friend and foe ( Cooke 1988 ) . It was only years after the writing of War's Other Voices , my analysis of the war writings , that I was to realize that the most enlightening example of how to tell the ...
... transformed it into the clarity of friend and foe ( Cooke 1988 ) . It was only years after the writing of War's Other Voices , my analysis of the war writings , that I was to realize that the most enlightening example of how to tell the ...
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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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