The 'other' martyrs : women and the poetics of sexuality, sacrifice, and death in world literatures /
The 'Other' Martyrs is a collection of essays that center on a diverse thematic array of women's martyrdom across periods and cultures. Ranging from Russia to Iraq, from Iran to Canada, from Greece to the lands of early, and spanning medieval and modern periods, each essay focuses on...
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| Médium: | Licensed eBooks |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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Wiesbaden :
Harrassowitz Verlag
2019.
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| Edice: | Martyrdom and literature ;
v. 1. |
| On-line přístup: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvrnfq6q |
Obsah:
- Introduction; An Inadvertent Sacrifice: Body Politics and Sovereign Power in the Pussy Riot Affair; Sacrifice and Self in Everybody Dies But Me; Ultimate Sacrifice: Women and Motherhood in Iranian Visual Culture; "A Mother's Sublime Sacrifice" Canadian Propaganda from World War I and Women's Suffrage; Thekla the Virgin: Women's Sacrifice and the Generic Martyr; From Prostitute to Martyr: Reconstruction of the Female Protagonist in Nodbe by Bahram Beyzai; Orations of Zaynab and Umm Kulthūm in the Aftermath of Husayn's Martyrdom at Karbala: Speaking Truth to Power