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In a book that radically and fundamentally revises the way we think about war, Miriam Cooke charts the emerging tradition of women's contributions to what she calls the "War Story," a genre formerly reserved for men. Concentrating on the contemporary literature of the Arab world, Cooke looks at how alternatives to the master narrative challenge the authority of experience and the permission to write. She shows how women who write themselves and their experiences into the War Story undo the masculine contract with violence, sexuality, and glory. There is no single War Story, Cooke concludes; the standard narrative--and with it the way we think about and conduct war--can be changed. As the traditional time, space, organization, and representation of war have shifted, so have ways of describing it. As drug wars, civil wars, gang wars, and ideological wars have moved into neighborhoods and homes, the line between combat zones and safe zones has blurred. Cooke shows how women's stories contest the acceptance of a dyadically structured world and break down the easy oppositions--home vs. front, civilian vs. combatant, war vs. peace, victory vs. defeat--that have framed, and ultimately promoted, war.

War stories --- War in literature --- Women and war --- Arabic fiction --- Women and literature --- Literature - General --- Languages & Literatures --- History and criticism --- Women authors --- Arabic literature --- War and women --- War --- Women and the military --- Literature --- Fiction --- History and criticism. --- Women authors.

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In the 1970's, one of the most torrid and forbidding regions in the world burst on to the international stage. The discovery and subsequent exploitation of oil allowed tribal rulers of the U.A.E, Qatar, Bahrain, and Kuwait to dream big. How could fishermen, pearl divers and pastoral nomads catch up with the rest of the modernized world? Even today, society is skeptical about the clash between the modern and the archaic in the Gulf. But could tribal and modern be intertwined rather than mutually exclusive? Exploring everything from fantasy architecture to neo-tribal sports and from Emirati dress codes to neo-Bedouin poetry contests, Tribal Modern explodes the idea that the tribal is primitive and argues instead that it is an elite, exclusive, racist, and modern instrument for branding new nations and shaping Gulf citizenship and identity-an image used for projecting prestige at home and power abroad.

Ethnology --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Anthropology --- Human beings --- Persian Gulf States --- Social life and customs. --- 20th century history. --- 20th century world history. --- anthropology. --- arab gulf. --- bahrain. --- discovery of oil. --- elitism. --- emirati dress codes. --- gender and race. --- gender studies. --- gender. --- gulf citizenship. --- gulf identity. --- heritage. --- historical. --- history. --- international relations. --- kuwait. --- middle east. --- middle eastern history. --- modernized world. --- national identity. --- natural resources. --- neo bedouin poetry. --- neo tribal sports. --- oil. --- political. --- power. --- qatar. --- racism. --- racist. --- society. --- tribal rulers. --- uae. --- united arab emirates. --- wealth and power.

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Arabic literature --- Feminism and literature --- War in literature. --- Women and literature --- History and criticism.

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Arabic literature --- anno 1900-1999