03567nam 22006495 450 991049587590332120220503180428.00-520-91809-60-585-08138-710.1525/9780520918092(CKB)111000211186648(SSID)ssj0000273214(PQKBManifestationID)12095482(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000273214(PQKBWorkID)10309541(PQKB)11238809(DE-B1597)543643(DE-B1597)9780520918092(OCoLC)1163878395(MiAaPQ)EBC30696826(Au-PeEL)EBL30696826(OCoLC)1394118412(EXLCZ)9911100021118664820200707h19961996 fg 0engur||#||||||||txtccrWomen and the war story /Miriam CookeReprint 2019Berkeley, CA :University of California Press,[1996]©19961 online resource (384 p.) 32 illustrationsBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-520-20613-4 0-520-20612-6 Front matter --Contents --Illustrations --Acknowledgments --Introduction --1. Subvert the Dominant Paradigm --2. Culture Degree Zero --3. Silence Is the Real Crime --4. Talking Democracy --5. Flames of Fire in Qadisiya --6. Reimagining Lebanon --Conclusion --Notes --Cited Works --IndexIn 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.War storiesHistory and criticism20th centuryArab countriesWar in literatureHistory and criticismWomen and warHistory and criticismWomen authorsArabic fictionWomen and literatureWar storiesHistory and criticismWar in literatureHistory and criticismWomen and warHistory and criticismWomen authorsArabic fictionWomen and literature892/.73609358Cooke Miriamauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut658450DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910495875903321Women and the war story2833902UNINA