Women and the War Story

"An extremely important book. The author, a major figure in 20th century international intellectual debates, dares to enter the discourses of war and politics, nationalism and gender, from a specifically internationalist feminist position."—Jane Marcus, author of Art and Anger: Reading like a Woman

"To the canonical list of Crane, Sassoon, Remarque, and Malraux, we now must add Khalifa, Talib, and Nasrallah. These and other Arab women writers, Miriam Cooke reveals, have used their literary crafts to upset and destabilize the oddly comfortable codified 'War Story.' Cooke is a wonderful guide into their radically alternative visions of war and of the nation in whose name war is waged."—Cynthia Enloe

About the author

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).

Summary

This text charts women's contributions to what the author calls the "War Story". It concentrates on the contemporary literature of the Arab world, showing how women who write themselves and their experiences into the "War Story" undo the masculine contract with violence, sexuality and glory.

Product details

• Authors: Miriam Cooke, Miriam G. Cooke, Cooke Miriam
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.1997
• EAN: 9780520206137
• ISBN: 978-0-520-20613-7
• No. of pages: 309
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Vietnam, Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, HISTORY / Military / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Middle Eastern, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Middle East, Warfare & defence, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Gender studies: women, Warfare and defence, Literary theory, Gender studies: women and girls, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Eastern