The better story
Subtitle: queer affects from the Middle East
By: Dina Georgis
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781438445830
Subjects: Gays; Discrimination; Homophobia; Minorities
Description: "With a focus on aesthetic texts that narrate stories about or from the Middle East, The Better Story offers fresh insights into political conflict. Dina Georgis argues that narrative is an emotional resource for learning and for generating better political futures. This book suggests that narrative not only gives us insight into social constructs, but also leads us into understanding the enigmatic processes by which we become and give our "selfs" over to collective memories, histories, and identities. Stories link us to queer "forgotten" spaces that official history has discarded. The Better Story argues that feminist, queer, and postcolonial studies have not helped us think about lives that do not neatly fit into the valorized logic of resistance and emancipation."--Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Stories in one; title: When the subaltern speaks and speaking of a suicide; title: Terrorism and the aesthetics of love; title: Postcolonial revolt : an anti-hero in search of self; title: Discarded histories and the adjectives of queer pain.