Soft weapons : autobiography in transit / Gillian Whitlock.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Whitlock, Gillian, 1953-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Iraq War, 2003-2011--Biography--History and criticism.

Iraq War, 2003-2011.

Exiles--Iran--Biography--History and criticism.

Exiles.

Autobiography.

Middle East--Biography--History and criticism.

Middle East.

Afghanistan--Biography--History and criticism.

Afghanistan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (259 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 wor

Contents:

Arablish : the Baghdad blogger

The skin of the burka : recent life narratives from Afghanistan

Testimony incarnate : read my lips

Branding : the veiled best-seller

Tainted testimony : the work of scandal

Embedded : memoir and correspondents

The pangs of exile : memoir out of Iran

Bookends : autographics.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-231) and index.

ISBN:

9786612505812

9781282505810

1282505815

9780226895277

0226895270

OCLC:

647877952