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Soft weapons : autobiography in transit / Gillian Whitlock.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007Description: x, 248 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0226895254
  • 0226895262
  • 9780226895253
  • 9780226895260
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 920.056 22
LOC classification:
  • CT1866 .W47 2007
Online resources:
Contents:
Arablish : the Baghdad blogger -- The skin of the burka : recent life narratives from Afghanistan -- Testimony incarnate : read my lips -- Branding : the veiled best-seller -- Tainted testimony : the work of scandal -- Embedded : memoir and correspondents -- The pangs of exile : memoir out of Iran -- Bookends : autographics.
Summary: Explores the dynamism and ubiquity of contemporary life writing about the Middle East and shows how these works have been packaged, promoted, and enlisted in Western controversies.
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Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 920.056 WHI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A375589B

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-231) and index.

Arablish : the Baghdad blogger -- The skin of the burka : recent life narratives from Afghanistan -- Testimony incarnate : read my lips -- Branding : the veiled best-seller -- Tainted testimony : the work of scandal -- Embedded : memoir and correspondents -- The pangs of exile : memoir out of Iran -- Bookends : autographics.

Explores the dynamism and ubiquity of contemporary life writing about the Middle East and shows how these works have been packaged, promoted, and enlisted in Western controversies.

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