03478nam 2200697 a 450 991079237530332120200520144314.01-282-50581-597866125058120-226-89527-010.7208/9780226895277(CKB)2670000000009720(EBL)488111(OCoLC)647877952(SSID)ssj0000343048(PQKBManifestationID)11249542(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000343048(PQKBWorkID)10288288(PQKB)10460233(StDuBDS)EDZ0000117470(MiAaPQ)EBC488111(DE-B1597)523407(OCoLC)1135589745(DE-B1597)9780226895277(Au-PeEL)EBL488111(CaPaEBR)ebr10366808(CaONFJC)MIL250581(EXLCZ)99267000000000972020060517d2007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrSoft weapons[electronic resource] autobiography in transit /Gillian WhitlockChicago University of Chicago Press20071 online resource (259 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-226-89525-4 0-226-89526-2 Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-231) and index.Arablish : the Baghdad blogger -- The skin of the burka : recent life narratives from Afghanistan -- Testimony incarnate : read my lips -- Branding : the veiled best-seller -- Tainted testimony : the work of scandal -- Embedded : memoir and correspondents -- The pangs of exile : memoir out of Iran -- Bookends : autographics.Azar Nafisi's Reading Lolita in Tehran, Marjane Satrapi's comics, and "Baghdad Blogger" Salam Pax's Internet diary are just a few examples of the new face of autobiography in an age of migration, globalization, and terror. But while autobiography and other genres of life writing can help us attend to people whose experiences are frequently unseen and unheard, life narratives can also be easily co-opted into propaganda. In Soft Weapons, Gillian Whitlock explores the dynamism and ubiquity of contemporary life writing about the Middle East and shows how these worIraq War, 2003-2011BiographyHistory and criticismExilesIranBiographyHistory and criticismAutobiographyMiddle EastBiographyHistory and criticismAfghanistanBiographyHistory and criticismautobiography, middle east, memoir, biography, life narratives, propaganda, terrorism, globalization, migration, islam, religion, commodification, race, prejudice, blog, salam pax, persepolis, satrapi, iraq, journalists, honor lost, norma khouri, fraud, arab women, jean sasson, afghanistan, war zones, testimony, refugees, reading lolita in tehran, azar nafisi, literary culture, scandal, exile, immigration, emigration, nonfiction.Iraq War, 2003-2011BiographyHistory and criticism.ExilesBiographyHistory and criticism.Autobiography.920.056Whitlock Gillian1953-1499081MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910792375303321Soft weapons3852399UNINA