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CT1866 .W47 2007eb
CT1866
.
W47
2007eb
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
(Number (ISBN
0226895254
(Number (ISBN
0226895262
(Number (ISBN
0226895270
(Number (ISBN
9780226895253
(Number (ISBN
9780226895260
(Number (ISBN
9780226895277
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0226895254
Erroneous ISBN
0226895262
Erroneous ISBN
9780226895253
Erroneous ISBN
9780226895260
NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER
Number
b707662
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
Soft weapons :
General Material Designation
[Book]
Other Title Information
autobiography in transit /
First Statement of Responsibility
Gillian Whitlock.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Chicago :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
University of Chicago Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2007.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
1 online resource (x, 248 pages) :
Other Physical Details
illustrations
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-231) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
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.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
Azar Nafisi's Reading Lolita in Tehran, Marjane Satrapi's comics, and "Baghdad Blogger" Salam Pax's Internet diary are just a few examples of the new face of autobiography in an age of migration, globalization, and terror. But while autobiography and other genres of life writing can help us attend to people whose experiences are frequently unseen and unheard, life narratives can also be easily co-opted into propaganda. In Soft Weapons, Gillian Whitlock explores the dynamism and ubiquity of contemporary life writing about the Middle East and shows how these works have been packaged, promoted, a.
OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
Soft weapons.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Autobiography.
Exiles-- Iran-- Biography-- History and criticism.
Iraq War, 2003-2011-- Biography-- History and criticism.
Autobiografische Literatur
Autobiography.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- Reference.
Biography.
Irakkrieg
GEOGRAPHICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Afghanistan, Biography, History and criticism.
Middle East, Biography, History and criticism.
Afghanistan
Afghanistan.
Iran.
Iraq.
Middle East.
Naher Osten
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BIO-- 012000
DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION
Number
920
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056
Edition
22
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
CT1866
Book number
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W47
2007eb
OTHER CLASS NUMBERS
Class number
15
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76
Class number
17
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87
Class number
18
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06
Class number
7
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26
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HQ
1002
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bcl
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System Code
rvk
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Whitlock, Gillian,1953-
ORIGINATING SOURCE
Date of Transaction
20201207224638.0
Cataloguing Rules (Descriptive Conventions))
pn
ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Electronic name
مطالعه متن کتاب [Book]
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