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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... turn my back on it . I wanted to know how what I had done fitted into the larger scheme . And so I started to read novels and poetry about the wars in Algeria , Vietnam , Iraq , and the Israeli - occupied territories . A life in a ...
... turn my back on it . I wanted to know how what I had done fitted into the larger scheme . And so I started to read novels and poetry about the wars in Algeria , Vietnam , Iraq , and the Israeli - occupied territories . A life in a ...
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... turns to the civil war in the aftermath of the Israeli invasion of 1982. Women like Huda Barakat and Nur Salman , who had not written about the war until that point , join others like Emily Nasrallah , who wrote throughout , to urge the ...
... turns to the civil war in the aftermath of the Israeli invasion of 1982. Women like Huda Barakat and Nur Salman , who had not written about the war until that point , join others like Emily Nasrallah , who wrote throughout , to urge the ...
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... turn to killing each other . The causes of war must be explored ; surely war is not inevitable ; it is only made to seem that way . Two Paradigms A bumper sticker on the car in front of me reads Subvert the Dominant Paradigm . My mind ...
... turn to killing each other . The causes of war must be explored ; surely war is not inevitable ; it is only made to seem that way . Two Paradigms A bumper sticker on the car in front of me reads Subvert the Dominant Paradigm . My mind ...
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... turn out to have been a good war . As we were told in the introduction , " This war might have been noble had the many revolutionaries and fighters not been joined by thieves and criminals , killers , drunks , and ignoramuses . " We ...
... turn out to have been a good war . As we were told in the introduction , " This war might have been noble had the many revolutionaries and fighters not been joined by thieves and criminals , killers , drunks , and ignoramuses . " We ...
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... turn the chaos of the civil war into the militarized order of the War Story . For whereas the militiamen could be and indeed were represented as soldiers , the Lebanese sniper cannot be glorified . His job is to be alone , not to cohere ...
... turn the chaos of the civil war into the militarized order of the War Story . For whereas the militiamen could be and indeed were represented as soldiers , the Lebanese sniper cannot be glorified . His job is to be alone , not to cohere ...
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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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