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Language and Literature -- Blood into Ink: South Asian and Middle Eastern Women Write War Edited by Miriam Cooke and Roshni Rustomji-Kerns
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Blood into Ink: South Asian and Middle Eastern Women Write War, ed. by Miriam Cooke and Roshni Rustomji-Kerns. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1994. xxvi + 237 pages. Bibl. Note to p. 238. $59.95 cloth; $19.95 paper.
The editors of this anthology remark that "in South Asia and the Middle East, women live battles and violence not as a constant state of alert and destruction, but as a charged normality" (p. 8). These stories, memoirs, poems, and excerpts of novels by women from a wide range of Asian societies, inscribe war not as a far-off front but as daily life, as something that must be both lived and resisted. Translated from Arabic and Hebrew; Punjabi, Hindi, and Urdu; Farsi and …
