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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...

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Otros Autores: Vatanabadi, Shouleh, 1955- (Editor ), Khorrami, Mohammad Mehdi (Editor ), Khakpour, Arta (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Abu Dhabi Institute, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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505 0 |a 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. 
505 0 |a 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. 
505 0 |a 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. 
520 8 |a 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 generation marked by prosthetic implants and teenage martyrdom. These same facts have been instrumentalized by agendas both foreign and domestic, but also aestheticized, defamiliarized, readdressed and reconciled by artists, writers, and filmmakers across an array of identities: linguistic (Arabic, Persian, Kurdish), religious (Shiite, Sunni, atheist), and political (Iranian, Iraqi, internationalist). Official discourses have unsurprisingly tried to dominate the process of production and distribution of war narratives. In doing so, they have ignored and silenced other voices. Centering on novels, films, memoirs, and poster art that gave aesthetic expression to the Iran-Iraq War, the essays gathered in this volume present multiple perspectives on the war's most complex and underrepresented narratives. These scholars do not naively claim to represent an authenticity lacking in official discourses of the war, but rather, they call into question the notion of authenticity itself. Finding, deciding upon, and creating a language that can convey any sort of truth at all-collective, national, or private-is the major preoccupation of the texts and critiques in this diverse collection. 
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