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Soft Weapons

- Autobiography in Transit
Af: Gillian Whitlock Engelsk Paperback

Soft Weapons

- Autobiography in Transit
Af: Gillian Whitlock Engelsk Paperback
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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 works have been packaged, promoted, and enlisted in Western controversies. Considering recent autoethnographies of Afghan women, refugee testimony from Middle Eastern war zones, Jean Sasson’s bestsellers about the lives of Arab women, Norma Khouri’s fraudulent memoir Honor Lost, personal accounts by journalists reporting the war in Iraq, Satrapi’s Persepolis, Nafisi’s book, and Pax’s blog, Whitlock explores the contradictions and ambiguities in the rapid commodification of life memoirs. Drawing from the fields of literary and cultural studies, Soft Weapons will be essential reading for scholars of life writing and those interested in the exchange of literary culture between Islam and the West.
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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 works have been packaged, promoted, and enlisted in Western controversies. Considering recent autoethnographies of Afghan women, refugee testimony from Middle Eastern war zones, Jean Sasson’s bestsellers about the lives of Arab women, Norma Khouri’s fraudulent memoir Honor Lost, personal accounts by journalists reporting the war in Iraq, Satrapi’s Persepolis, Nafisi’s book, and Pax’s blog, Whitlock explores the contradictions and ambiguities in the rapid commodification of life memoirs. Drawing from the fields of literary and cultural studies, Soft Weapons will be essential reading for scholars of life writing and those interested in the exchange of literary culture between Islam and the West.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 216
ISBN-13: 9780226895260
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0226895262
Kategori: Social- & Kulturantropologi
Udg. Dato: 30 dec 2006
Længde: 16mm
Bredde: 229mm
Højde: 152mm
Forlag: The University of Chicago Press
Oplagsdato: 30 dec 2006
Forfatter(e): Gillian Whitlock
Forfatter(e) Gillian Whitlock

Kategori Social- & Kulturantropologi

ISBN-13 9780226895260

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 216

Udgave

Længde 16mm

Bredde 229mm

Højde 152mm

Udg. Dato 30 dec 2006

Oplagsdato 30 dec 2006

Forlag The University of Chicago Press

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