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Women and the war story / / Miriam Cooke



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Autore: Cooke Miriam Visualizza persona
Titolo: Women and the war story / / Miriam Cooke Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [1996]
©1996
Edizione: Reprint 2019
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (384 p.) : 32 illustrations
Disciplina: 892/.73609358
Soggetto topico: War stories - History and criticism - 20th century - Arab countries
War in literature - History and criticism
Women and war - History and criticism - Women authors
Arabic fiction
Women and literature
Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Nota di contenuto: 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 -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Women and the war story  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-520-91809-6
0-585-08138-7
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910495875903321
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