The Wounds of War and Conflict in Contemporary Arab Women’s Writings from North Africa and the Middle East

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ID24027680
AuthorsBrinda J Mehta
Year2025
Publication date2025-09-15
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueThe Wounds of War and Conflict in Contemporary Arab Women’s Writings from North Africa and the Middle East (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University PressNew York, NY (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/9780197815229.001.0001
ISBN9780197815229
LanguageEN
References cited54

The Wounds of War and Conflict makes a much-needed postcolonial feminist literary intervention in traditional narratives of war and anti-war protest by filling the glaring gaps and omissions embedded in North Africa and the Middle East’s stories of war through its emphasis on the writings of women. The wars and conflicts chosen for this book include the ongoing occupation and devastation of Palestine (1948–present); the Algerian War of Independence (1958–62); the Lebanese civil war (1975–1990); the invasion and occupation of Iraq (2003–2011); the Yazidi genocide in Iraq (2007–2014); the Syrian civil war (2011–2019); and the Yemeni civil war (2014–2023). The book establishes the genealogy of Arab women’s anti-war resistance in the region’s literary and cultural arts from 1948 to the present day and testifies to the study’s relevance and timeliness.

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