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Gendered Narrative in Female War Literature: Helen Benedict’s Sand Queen
HAWWA Pub Date : 2019-12-19 , DOI: 10.1163/15692086-12341365
Maryam Moosavi 1 , Azra Ghandeharion 1 , Mahmoud Reza Ghorban Sabbagh 1
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US novelist and journalist Helen Benedict’s 2011 fictional work Sand Queen, the first novel about the Iraq War (2003–11) written by a woman, has great potential for feminist approaches, especially regarding its use of gender-identity models. Through her positioning of the narrators, her multiple narratives, and the linguistic elements in this work, Benedict has created a unique artistic structure that has broad implications for the study of narrative, the themes of war, displacement, and trauma, and cross-cultural understanding. The current study examines Benedict’s work to demonstrate her gender-conscious view of war in her depiction of US soldier Kate Brady and Iraqi medical student and interpreter Naema Jassim as the central consciousnesses through which the narrative is told. Taking advantage of third-wave feminist approaches to gender, the study discovers diverse perspectives and distinctive viewpoints on the concept of gender identity. Offered by the novel’s first-person character-narrators, these viewpoints explore the fictional universe mapped out by Benedict in the text. In the context of the Iraq War, based on models of gender identity interspersed throughout the narrative, the study reveals how the challenges and/or reaffirmations of normative gender ideologies dominated patriarchal systems of military institutions.



中文翻译:

女性战争文学中的性别叙事:海伦·本尼迪克特的沙皇后

美国小说家兼记者海伦·本尼迪克特 (Helen Benedict) 2011 年的虚构作品《沙之女王》是女性写的第一部关于伊拉克战争(2003-11)的小说,具有巨大的女权主义方法潜力,尤其是在使用性别认同模型方面。通过她对叙述者的定位、她的多重叙事以及这部作品中的语言元素,本尼迪克特创造了一种独特的艺术结构,对叙事研究、战争、流离失所和创伤主题以及跨文化研究具有广泛的影响。理解。目前的研究检查了本尼迪克特的作品,以展示她对战争的性别意识观点,她将美国士兵凯特布雷迪和伊拉克医学生和翻译纳埃玛贾西姆描述为叙述叙事的中心意识。利用第三波女权主义的性别方法,该研究发现了关于性别认同概念的不同观点和独特观点。由小说的第一人称角色叙述者提供,这些观点探索了本尼迪克特在文本中描绘的虚构世界。在伊拉克战争的背景下,基于贯穿整个叙事的性别认同模型,该研究揭示了规范性别意识形态的挑战和/或重申如何主导军事机构的父权制系统。

更新日期:2019-12-19
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