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"This book challenges the assumption that men write of war, women of the hearth. The Lebanese war has seen the publication of many more works of fiction by women than by men. Miriam Cooke has termed these women the Beirut Decentrists, as they are decentered or excluded from both literary canon and social discourse.".
"Although they may not share religious or political affiliation, they do share a perspective which holds them together. Cooke traces the transformation in consciousness that has taken place among women who observed and recorded the progress towards chaos in Lebanon.".
"During the so-called "two-year" war of 1975-76, little comment was made about those (usually men in search of economic security) who left the saturnalia of violence, but with time attitudes changed. Women became aware that they had remained out of a sense of responsibility for others and that they had survived.
Consciousness of survival was catalytic: the Beirut Decentrists began to describe a society that had gone beyond the masculinization normal in most wars and achieved an almost unprecedented femininization. Emigration, the expected behavior for men before 1975, was rejected. Staying, the expected behavior for women before 1975, became the sine qua non for Lebanese citizenship.".
"The writings of the Beirut Decentrists offer hope of an escape from the anarchy. If men and women could espouse the Lebanese women's sense of responsibility, the energy that had fueled the unrelenting savagery could be turned to reconstruction. But that was before the invasion of 1982."--BOOK JACKET.
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Arab Women authors, Arabic literature, Feminism and literature, History, History and criticism, Lebanon Civil War, 1975-1990, Literature and the war, War in literature, Women and literature, Women authors, Women authors, Arab, Arabic literature, history and criticism, Women and peace, War and literaturePlaces
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20th century, Civil War, 1975-1990Showing 4 featured editions. View all 4 editions?
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War's other voices: women writers on the Lebanese civil war
1996, Syracuse University Press
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War's Other Voices: Women Writers on the Lebanese Civil War (Cambridge Middle East Library)
January 29, 1988, Cambridge University Press
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War's other voices: women writers on the Lebanese civil war
1987, Cambridge University Press
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War's other voices: women writers in the Lebanese civil war
1987, Cambridge University Press
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Bibliography: p. 195-204.
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