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Discussion questions for "Arab Women, Arab Wars"
- What is the main premise of Miriam Cooke’s paper?
- How, according to Cooke, does the novel, etc. emerging out of the war experience challenge “the Homeric myth?” What implications does it have for women writing war stories?
- How have unconventional, post-colonial wars challenged “the mystic boundaries” of war myth-making monopolized by men?
- What is the significance of the statement, “These war stories, although men’s domain, may also be interpreted as being about peace, women’s domain” (p. 152). How have the post-1948 wars in the Arab world, for example, the Algerian war of independence, granted legitimacy to women authors entering a traditional “male preserve”?
- How did Palestinian women’s writings contribute to a further expansion of this trend?
- How do messy civil wars dissolve boundaries between “home” and “front” so as to create, what Cooke calls, a “hyperspace”?
- How do we see this manifested during the Lebanese civil war?
- How are women “inscribing their experience in war into the war story” and with what results?
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