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245 00 $aMoments of silence :$bauthenticity in the cultural expressions of the Iran-Iraq War, 1980-1988 /$cedited by Arta Khakpour, Mohammad Mehdi Khorrami and Shouleh Vatanabadi.
264 1 $aNew York :$bNew York University Press :$bNYU Abu Dhabi Institute,$c[2016]
300 $aviii, 290 pages ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 8 $aThe 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.
611 27 $aIran-Iraq War (1980-1988)$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00978774
650 0 $aIran-Iraq War, 1980-1988$xLiterature and the war.
650 7 $aWar and literature.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01170442
648 7 $a1980-1988$2fast
700 1 $aKhakpour, Arta,$eeditor.
700 1 $aKhorrami, Mohammad Mehdi,$eeditor.
700 1 $aVatanabadi, Shouleh,$d1955-$eeditor.
852 00 $bglx$hPK6412.I73$iM66 2016