Gendering the Iraq-Kuwait Conflict: Literary Representations of Kuwaiti Women's Resilience and Resistance.
This article examines the 1990-1991 Iraq-Kuwait war as a gendered conflict, and Kuwaiti women's varied reactions to the events of the war, as represented in Kuwaiti fiction. In a category of Kuwaiti war narratives—by both male and female writers—there are the stereotypical images and roles of women:...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Arabic Literature Vol. 39; no. 2; pp. 250 - 270 |
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Brill Academic Publishers
2008
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