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Sexuality and War : Literary Masks of the Middle East / Evelyne Accad.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Accad, Evelyne.
- Series:
- Feminist crosscurrents.
- Feminist crosscurrents
- Feminist Crosscurrents
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sexual animosity--Arab countries.
- Sexual animosity.
- Sexual animosity--Lebanon.
- Violence in literature.
- Feminism in literature.
- Sex in literature.
- Lebanese fiction (French)--History and criticism.
- Lebanese fiction (French).
- Arabic fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- Arabic fiction.
- Arabic fiction--Lebanon--History and criticism.
- Lebanon--History--Civil War, 1975-1990--Literature and the war.
- Lebanon.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (215 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; London : New York University Press, [1990]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- ""A courageous analysis of Arab writers, addressing the connections between masculinity, violence, and nationalism."". -Robin Morgan, Ms. . ""Rarely have sexuality and war been treated with such poignancy and historical concreteness .... The force of these often intertwined phenomena endemic to the human condition are considered with incisive and wrenching specificity from within one of the most baneful convergences of sexuality and war in recent history."". -Djelal Kadir, editor, World Literature Today . ""Personal, powerful, passionate, uncensored."". -Fedwa Malti-Douglas, The Journal of Wom
- Contents:
- 9780814706152_Accad_front; 9780814706152_Accad_pod.pdf; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I Unveiling Sexuality in War; 1 Sexuality and Sexual Politics: Conflicts and Contradictions for Contemporary Women; 2 An Occulted Aspect of the War in Lebanon; PART II Women Unmask War; 3 Hanan al-Shaykh: Despair, Resignation, Masochism, and Madness; 4 Etel Adnan: Courage, Engagement, and Self-Sacrifice; 5 Andrée Chedid: Determination, Vision, Endurance, and Belief in Humanity; 6 Active Nonviolence Versus Victimization; PART III War Unveils Men
- 7 Tawfiq Yusuf Awwad: Revolution, Ethics, Revenge, and Destiny8 Halim Barakat: Despair, Fear, Revolt, Tradition, and Heroism; 9 Elias Khoury: Ambivalence, Fear of Women, and Fascination with Death and Destruction; 10 War/Masculinity Versus Life/Freedom; 11 Personal and Political Action for the Transformation of Society; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-193) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780814705957
- 0814705952
- 9780814705445
- 0814705448
- OCLC:
- 784884422
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