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The Wounds of War highlights the capacity of the literary arts and Arab women's feminist writings to project, critique, and complicate what has happened and what is still happening to women in sites of violation because of war and continuing political instability, unchecked sexual trauma, health politics, and other insecurities. The women's gendered forms of resistance highlight their strength, resilience, and agency. The book stands out for the range of materials it includes from several countries (Algeria, Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, and Yemen) and genres (plays, novels, memoirs, poetry, and testimonials).
List of contents
- Introduction
- Chapter One: Staging Protest in Fatima Bourega-Gallaire's "The Icon's Beauty" and Myriam Ben's Leïla
- Chapter Two: Fragile Bodies and Resilient Minds: The War Traumas of Children in Racha Mounaged's The Wound and Samar Yazbek's Planet of Clay.
- Chapter Three: The Feminist War Against Cancer in Evelyne Accad's The Wounded Breast: Intimate Journey's Through Cancer, Betool Khedairi's Absent, and Abir Hamdar's "I Am Waiting for You."
- Chapter Four: Contesting Illegality in Suad Amiry's Border Diary, Nothing to Lose but Your Life: An 18-Hour Journey with Murad.
- Chapter Five: Redefining the War Archive in Dunya Mikhail's The War Works Hard, The Beekeeper: Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq, and In Her Feminine Sign.
- Chapter Six: The Painful Road to Freedom in Maram al-Masri's Freedom's Naked March.
- Chapter Seven: Testimonials of Pain in Yemen's Forgotten War: Bushra Al Maqtari's What Have You Left Behind?
- Index
- Bibliography
