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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... woman write about Arab women without privileging herself as norm ? In 1980 , when I began to work on Arab women's writings on the Lebanese civil war , my colleagues ' only objection was the value of the enterprise : did I really want to ...
... woman write about Arab women without privileging herself as norm ? In 1980 , when I began to work on Arab women's writings on the Lebanese civil war , my colleagues ' only objection was the value of the enterprise : did I really want to ...
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Miriam Cooke. interested in those moments of women's empowerment , though they seem to be invisible . Above all , I believe in the power of women's oppositional discourses wherever they happen . My work is pre- mised on the hope that ...
Miriam Cooke. interested in those moments of women's empowerment , though they seem to be invisible . Above all , I believe in the power of women's oppositional discourses wherever they happen . My work is pre- mised on the hope that ...
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... women everywhere to claim their war experiences as combat . It is the growing understanding of the ways in which patriarchy seizes and then articulates women's ex- periences so that they will be seem to be marginal and apolitical that ...
... women everywhere to claim their war experiences as combat . It is the growing understanding of the ways in which patriarchy seizes and then articulates women's ex- periences so that they will be seem to be marginal and apolitical that ...
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... women writing about war and women entering into the military . In each case , women who have traditionally been associated with peace are intervening in wars and revealing that the ways in which war stories have been told were deeply ...
... women writing about war and women entering into the military . In each case , women who have traditionally been associated with peace are intervening in wars and revealing that the ways in which war stories have been told were deeply ...
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... women's space . And then who would venture into battle if there were doubt about the goodness and loyalty of troops ... women's writings on the Algerian war of independence . This war was widely acclaimed for mobilizing women into the ...
... women's space . And then who would venture into battle if there were doubt about the goodness and loyalty of troops ... women's writings on the Algerian war of independence . This war was widely acclaimed for mobilizing women into 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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