Soft Weapons: Autobiography in Transit

by Gillian Whitlock

Book Overview

Azar Nafisi's Reading Lolita in Tehran, Marjane Satrapi's comics, and "Baghdad Blogger" Salam Pax's Internet diary are just a few examples of the new face of autobiography in an age of migration, globalization, and terror. But while autobiography and other genres of life writing can help us attend to people whose experiences are frequently unseen and unheard, life narratives can also be easily co-opted into propaganda. In Soft...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226895262
• ISBN13: 9780226895260
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.5" x 9.0"