The Wounds of War and Conflict in Contemporary Arab Women's Writings from North Africa and the Middle East
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 12 January 2026
- ISBN 9780197815199
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages320 pages
- Size 242x164x31 mm
- Weight 553 g
- Language English 653
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Short description:
The Wounds of War highlights the capacity of the literary arts and Arab women's feminist writings to project, critique, and complicate what has happened and what is still happening to women in sites of violation because of war and continuing political instability, unchecked sexual trauma, health politics, and other insecurities. The women's gendered forms of resistance highlight their strength, resilience, and agency. The book stands out for the range of materials it includes from several countries (Algeria, Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, and Yemen) and genres (plays, novels, memoirs, poetry, and testimonials).
MoreLong description:
The Wounds of War and Conflict in Contemporary Arab Women's Writings from North Africa and the Middle East focuses on the writings of women authors from North Africa and the Middle East who open a critical and alternative imaginary of war and displacement in their literary production. Their voices underscore the capacity of the literary arts to project, critique, and complicate what has happened and what is still happening to women in these sites of violation because of war and continuing political instability, unchecked sexual trauma, health politics, and other insecurities. Emerging from a situation of urgency, The Wounds of War makes a much-needed postcolonial feminist literary and cultural intervention in traditional narratives of war and anti-war protest by filling the glaring gaps and omissions embedded in the MENA region's “war stories” through its emphasis on the writings of women.
With its focus on North Africa and the Middle East, The Wounds of War establishes the legacy of Arab women's anti-war resistance in the MENA region's literary and cultural arts. It discusses how women survive war through gendered forms of resistance that highlight their strength, courage, and agency. This highly sensorial language is scarred by war wounds and poetic lament to reveal its expressivity in compelling texts that highlight the liminal spaces between loss and recovery, memory and amnesia, submission and resistance, and survival and death in delimiting war zones. Literature provides testimony and denunciation in the face of war's wanton destructiveness by unveiling the bloodied synergies between biopower, war wounds, gender, and Arab women's anti-war feminist resistance in prose, poetry, theatre, memoirs, and testimonial writing. Narrative enjambments underscore the “unrepresentable” dimensions of creativity that can articulate the horrors of war and conflict in Algeria, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and Palestine.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Wounds of War and Conflict in Contemporary Arab Women's Writings
Staging Protest in Fatima Bourega-Gallaire's La beauté de l'icône (The Icon's Beauty) and Myriam Ben's Leïla
Fragile Bodies and Resilient Minds: The War Traumas of Children in Racha Mounaged's La Blessure (The Wound) and Samar Yazbek's Al-Masha'a (Planet of Clay)
The Feminist War Against Cancer in Evelyne Accad's The Wounded Breast, Betool Khedairi's Gayab (Absent), and Abir Hamdar's Wasaful al-sabr ("I Am Waiting for You")
Contesting Illegality in Suad Amiry's "Border Diary" Nothing to Lose but Your Life: An 18-Hour Journey with Murad
Redefining the War ArchiveTied Circles, Birdsong, and War Fragments in Dunya Mikhail's The War Works Hard and In Her Feminine Sign
The Painful Road to Freedom in Maram al-Masri's Elle va nue la liberté (Freedom's Naked March)
Testimonials of Pain in Yemen's Forgotten WarBushra Al-Maqtari's What Have You Left Behind?
Afterword: Final Reflections on War
