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

• Autore: Whitlock Gillian <1953->
• 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
• ISBN: 1-282-50581-5; 9786612505812; 0-226-89527-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910459239103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II