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