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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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Imprint: |
University of Chicago Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
December 2006 |
First published: |
December 2006 |
Authors: |
Gillian Whitlock
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Dimensions: |
152 x 229 x 16mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
216 |
Edition: |
New edition |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-226-89526-0 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
General
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LSN: |
0-226-89526-2 |
Barcode: |
9780226895260 |
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