20th century war literature
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algerian war of independence
arab world
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authority of experience
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civil wars
drug wars
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film representations
gang wars
gender studies
glory
ideological wars
iraqi iran war
israeli invasion
israeli occupation
lebanese civil war
master narrative
media coverage
middle eastern literature
nuclear age
palestinian uprising
safe zones
sexuality
story of war
violence
war
war narratives
war stories
wars other voices
women and war
womens voices
Product details
- ISBN 9780520206137
- Weight: 635g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jan 1997
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Miriam Cooke is Professor of Arabic at Duke University. She is the author of War's Other Voices: Women Writers on the Lebanese Civil War (1988) and coeditor of Gendering War Talk (1993) and Opening the Gates: A Century of Arab Feminist Writing (1990).
