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Soft Weapons: Autobiography in Transit

Gillian Whitlock

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Description:Azar NafisiOCOs "Reading Lolita in Tehran," " "Marjane SatrapiOCOs comics, and OC Baghdad BloggerOCO Salam PaxOCOs 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 SassonOCOs bestsellers about the lives of Arab women, Norma KhouriOCOs fraudulent memoir "Honor Lost, " personal accounts by journalists reporting the war in Iraq, SatrapiOCOs "Persepolis," NafisiOCOs book, and PaxOCOs 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. "We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Soft Weapons: Autobiography in Transit. To get started finding Soft Weapons: Autobiography in Transit, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 259

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

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Release: 2014

ISBN: 0226895270

Description: Azar NafisiOCOs "Reading Lolita in Tehran," " "Marjane SatrapiOCOs comics, and OC Baghdad BloggerOCO Salam PaxOCOs 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 SassonOCOs bestsellers about the lives of Arab women, Norma KhouriOCOs fraudulent memoir "Honor Lost, " personal accounts by journalists reporting the war in Iraq, SatrapiOCOs "Persepolis," NafisiOCOs book, and PaxOCOs 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. "We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Soft Weapons: Autobiography in Transit. To get started finding Soft Weapons: Autobiography in Transit, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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