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War's Other Voices - Women Writers on the Lebanese Civil War (Hardcover)
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War's Other Voices - Women Writers on the Lebanese Civil War (Hardcover)
Series: Cambridge Middle East Library
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This book challenges the assumption that men write of war, women of
the hearth. The Lebanese war has seen the publication of many more
works of fiction by women than by men. Miriam Cooke has termed
these women the Beirut Decentrists, as they are decentred or
excluded from both literary canon and social discourse. Although
they may not share religious or political affiliation, they do
share a perspective, which holds them together. The author traces
the transformation in consciousness that has taken place among
women who observed and recorded the progress towards chaos in
Lebanon. During the so-called 'two-year' war of 1975-6 little
comment was made about those (usually men in search of economic
security) who left the saturnalia of violence, but with time
attitudes changed. Women became aware that they had stayed out of a
sense of responsibility for others and that they had survived.
Consciousness of survival was catalytic: the Beirut Decentrists
began to describe a society that had gone beyond the
masculinisation normal in most wars and achieved an almost
unprecedented fernininisation. Emigration, the expected behaviour
for men before 1975, was rejected. Staying, the expected behaviour
for women before 1975, became the sine qua non for Lebanese
citizenship. The writings of the Beirut Decentrists offer hope of a
way out of the anarchy. If men and women could espouse the Lebanese
women's sense of responsibility, the energy that had fuelled the
unrelenting savagery could be turned to reconstruction. But that
was before the invasion of 1982.
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