Bokus
Lava Asaad, Fayeza Hasanat - In the Crossfire of History, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

In the Crossfire of History

Women's War Resistance Discourse in the Global South

Av Lava Asaad, Fayeza Hasanat

1736 kr

Beställningsvara. Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar. Fri frakt över 249 kr.

Beskrivning
In the global south, women have and continue to resist multiple forms of structural violence. The atrocities committed against Yazidi women by ISIS have been recognized internationally, and the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Nadia Murad in 2018 was a tribute to honor women whose bodies have been battered in the name of race, nationality, war, and religion. In the Crossfire of History:Women's War Resistance Discourse in the Global South is an edited collection that incorporates literary works, testimonies, autobiographies, women’s resistance movements, and films that add to the conversation on the resilience of women in the global south. The collection focuses on Palestine, Kashmir, Syria, Kurdistan, Congo, Argentina, Central America, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh. The essays question historical accuracy and politics of representation that usually undermine women’s role during conflict, and they reevaluate how women participated, challenged, sacrificed, and vehemently opposed war discourses that erase women’s role in shaping resistance movements.The transformative mode of these examples expands the definition of heroism and defiance. To prevent these types of heroism from slipping into the abyss of history, this collection brings forth and celebrates women’s fortitude in conflict zones. In the Crossfire of History shines a light onwomen across the globe who are resisting the sociopolitical and economic injustices in their nation-states.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2022-09-16
  • Mått: 156 x 235 x 28 mm
  • Vikt: 454 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Serie: War Culture
  • Antal sidor: 214
  • Förlag: Rutgers University Press
  • ISBN: 9781978830226
Utforska kategorier
Mer om författaren

LAVA ASAAD is a postdoctoral teaching fellow at Auburn University in Alabama. She is the author of Literature with a White Helmet: The Textual-Corporeality of Being, Becoming and Representing Refugees.FAYEZA HASANAT completed her MA and PhD in English from the University of Florida. She is the author of Nawab Faizunnesa’s Rupjalal: Translation and Commentary and The Voices of War Heroines: Sexual Violence, Testimony, and the Bangladesh Liberation War. Her debut short story collection, The Bird Catcher and Other Stories, was simultaneously published in the United States and Bangladesh. Hasanat teaches at the English Department of the University of Central Florida, Orlando.

Recensioner i media

“This is a timely intervention in women’s resistance from the Global South that maps the complex labyrinth of women’s opposition, agency, advocacy through various forms of art, literature, and activism. Removed from the 'strait-jacket' of organized resistance, it is a must-read for scholars, students, activists interested in women’s voices and actions from the South as they defy and negotiate with micro and macro political structures of power.”- Swapna M. Banerjee (Professor of History, Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center of the City University of New York) "This powerful set of essays refuses conventional tropes of female agency in the liberal tradition; instead, the authors theorize a politics and poetics of “resistance” that is context-specific, place based and plural.  The volume, which takes the reader to geographical spaces that are often marginalized in feminist analyses, is a welcome addition to the emerging field of decolonial feminist scholarship." - Dina M. Siddiqi (Executive Committee, American Institute of Bangladesh Studies (AIBS))

Betyg & recensioner

0 recensioner

Inga recensioner tillgängliga.

Mer från samma serie