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Moments of silence : authenticity in the cultural expressions of the Iran-Iraq war, 1980-1988 /
The Iran-Iraq War was the longest conventional war of the 20th century. The memory of it may have faded in the wake of more recent wars in the region, but the harrowing facts remain: over one million soldiers and civilians dead, millions more permanently displaced and disabled, and an entire generat...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
New York University Press : New York University Abu Dhabi Institute,
[2015]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I. Transnational Contexts: Interconnected Histories, Geographies, and Languages; 1. Narratives of Borders and Beyond; 2. Lost Homelands, Imaginary Returns: The Exilic Literature of Iranian and Iraqi Jews; Part II. Theorizing Cultural Expressions of War; 3. Treacherous Memory: Bashu the Little Stranger and the Sacred Defense; 4. War Veterans Turned Writers of War Narratives; 5. Between Betrayal and Steadfastness: Iraqi Prisoners of War Narrate Their Lives.
- 6. Stepping Back from the Front: A Glance at Home Front Narratives of the Iran-Iraq War in Persian and Arabic Fiction7. Not a Manifesto: The Languages of Aggression; Part III. War through Visual Representations; 8. All's Not Quiet on the Western Front: Graphic Arts in the Iranian War Effort; 9. Shadows of War: An Overview of Iranian War Films from 1980 to 1988; Part IV. Literary Narratives of War; 10. Representation of the Iran-Iraq War in Kurdish Fiction; 11. Editing (Virayesh) as a Movement of Resistance during the Iran-Iraq War.
- 12. Narratives of Silence: Persian Fiction of the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq WarAppendix A: Only the Dead Witnessed the End of the War; Appendix B: My Brother's Blue Eyes; Appendix C: Two Poems; Appendix D: A Chapter from The Pomegranate Alone; Appendix E: A Letter to the Saad Family; Select Bibliography; About the Contributors; Index.