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Soft weapons [[electronic resource] ] : autobiography in transit / / Gillian Whitlock



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Autore: Whitlock Gillian <1953-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Soft weapons [[electronic resource] ] : autobiography in transit / / Gillian Whitlock Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2007
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (259 p.)
Disciplina: 920.056
Soggetto topico: Iraq War, 2003-2011 - Biography - History and criticism
Exiles - Iran - Biography - History and criticism
Autobiography
Soggetto geografico: Middle East Biography History and criticism
Afghanistan Biography History and criticism
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-231) and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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.
Sommario/riassunto: 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 wor
Titolo autorizzato: Soft weapons  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-50581-5
9786612505812
0-226-89527-0
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910459239103321
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