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Sexuality and War : Literary Masks of the Middle East / / Evelyne Accad



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Autore: Accad Evelyne Visualizza persona
Titolo: Sexuality and War : Literary Masks of the Middle East / / Evelyne Accad Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York ; ; London : , : New York University Press, , [1990]
©1990
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (215 p.)
Disciplina: 892.736093538
892/.736093538
Soggetto topico: Sexual animosity - Arab countries
Sexual animosity - Lebanon
Violence in literature
Feminism in literature
Sex in literature
Lebanese fiction (French) - History and criticism
Arabic fiction - 20th century - History and criticism
Arabic fiction - Lebanon - History and criticism
Soggetto geografico: Lebanon History Civil War, 1975-1990 Literature and the war
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-193) and index.
Nota di contenuto: 9780814706152_Accad_front; 9780814706152_Accad_pod.pdf; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I Unveiling Sexuality in War; 1 Sexuality and Sexual Politics: Conflicts and Contradictions for Contemporary Women; 2 An Occulted Aspect of the War in Lebanon; PART II Women Unmask War; 3 Hanan al-Shaykh: Despair, Resignation, Masochism, and Madness; 4 Etel Adnan: Courage, Engagement, and Self-Sacrifice; 5 Andrée Chedid: Determination, Vision, Endurance, and Belief in Humanity; 6 Active Nonviolence Versus Victimization; PART III War Unveils Men
7 Tawfiq Yusuf Awwad: Revolution, Ethics, Revenge, and Destiny8 Halim Barakat: Despair, Fear, Revolt, Tradition, and Heroism; 9 Elias Khoury: Ambivalence, Fear of Women, and Fascination with Death and Destruction; 10 War/Masculinity Versus Life/Freedom; 11 Personal and Political Action for the Transformation of Society; Bibliography; Index
Sommario/riassunto: ""A courageous analysis of Arab writers, addressing the connections between masculinity, violence, and nationalism."". -Robin Morgan, Ms. . ""Rarely have sexuality and war been treated with such poignancy and historical concreteness .... The force of these often intertwined phenomena endemic to the human condition are considered with incisive and wrenching specificity from within one of the most baneful convergences of sexuality and war in recent history."". -Djelal Kadir, editor, World Literature Today . ""Personal, powerful, passionate, uncensored."". -Fedwa Malti-Douglas, The Journal of Wom
Titolo autorizzato: Sexuality and war  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8147-0595-2
0-8147-0544-8
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 996248019703316
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