In the Crossfire of History : : Women's War Resistance Discourse in the Global South / / ed. by Lava Asaad, Fayeza Hasanat.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
• MitwirkendeR: Akhter, Farzana,; Asaad, Lava,; Garcia-Santana, Lucia,; García-Santana, Lucía,; Hageman, Margaret,; Hasanat, Fayeza,; Khan, Nyla Ali,; Khan, Nyla,; Nahar, Shafinur,; Omran, Doaa,; Ownbey, Carolyn,; Quazi, Moumin,; Sevcik, Stefanie,; Spencer, Matthew,
• HerausgeberIn: Asaad, Lava,; Hasanat, Fayeza,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: War Culture
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (214 p.) :; 13 b&w images

In the global south, women have and continue to resist multiple forms of structural violence. The atrocities committed against Yazidi women by ISIS have been recognized internationally, and the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Nadia Murad in 2018 was a tribute to honor women whose bodies have been battered in the name of race, nationality, war, and religion. In the Crossfire of History:Women's War Resistance Discourse in the Global South is an edited collection that incorporates literary works, testimonies, autobiographies, women’s resistance movements, and films that add to the conversation on the resilience of women in the global south. The collection focuses on Palestine, Kashmir, Syria, Kurdistan, Congo, Argentina, Central America, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh. The essays question historical accuracy and politics of representation that usually undermine women’s role during conflict, and they reevaluate how women participated, challenged, sacrificed, and vehemently opposed war discourses that erase women’s role in shaping resistance movements. The transformative mode of these examples expands the definition of heroism and defiance. To prevent these types of heroism from slipping into the abyss of history, this collection brings forth and celebrates women’s fortitude in conflict zones. In the Crossfire of History shines a light onwomen across the globe who are resisting the sociopolitical and economic injustices in their nation-states.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Portraits of Resistance -- I Representations of Resistance in Art and Media -- 1 Syrian Women’s Prison Art: Toward a Poetics of Creative Insurgency -- 2 Moving beyond Victimhood: Female Agency in Bangladeshi War Movies -- 3 Structuring Jineology within Global Feminism: Representations of Kurdish Women Fighters in Western Media -- II Literature and Resistance -- 4 All the Female Bodies: Female Resistance and Political Consciousness in Testimonies of the Dirty War in Argentina -- 5 The Woman from Tantoura: An Autotheoretical Reading in the Art of Resistance -- 6 South Asian Women and Hybrid Identities: Narratives of Abduction and Displacement in Partition Literature -- 7 Writing Solidarity: Women in Bapsi Sidhwa’s Cracking India -- 8 Sri Lankan Postcolonial Inversion and a “Thousand Mirrors” of Resistance -- III Advocacy/Activism -- 9 Kashmiri Women Activists in the Aftermath of the Partition of India -- 10 Teaching Narratives of Rape Survivors of the Bangladesh War in a Classroom: A Survey -- 11 They Fear Us Because We Are Fearless: Women-Led Global Environmental Advocacy and Its Enemies -- Conclusion: Detangling Resistance -- Notes on Contributors -- Index