Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I. Transnational Contexts: Interconnected Histories, Geographies, and Languages
6. 1. Narratives of Borders and Beyond 11
7. 2. Lost Homelands, Imaginary Returns 20
8. Part II. Theorizing Cultural Expressions of War
9. 3. Treacherous Memory 61
10. 4. War Veterans Turned Writers of War Narratives 88
11. 5. Between Betrayal and Steadfastness 103
12. 6. Stepping Back from the Front 120
13. 7. Not a Manifesto 138
14. Part III. War through Visual Representations
15. 8. All’s Not Quiet on the Western Front 163
16. 9. Shadows of War 176
17. Part IV. Literary Narratives of War
18. 10. Representation of the Iran- Iraq War in Kurdish Fiction 193
19. 11. Editing (Virayesh) as a Movement of Resistance during the Iran- Iraq War 206
20. 12. Narratives of Silence 217
21. Appendix A 237
22. Appendix B 246
23. Appendix C 250
24. Appendix D 252
25. Appendix E 258
26. Select Bibliography 265
27. About the Contributors 271
28. Index 277