Collateral Damage - Mujica, Bárbara

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Résumé :
From Homer to Tim O'Brien, war literature remains largely the domain of male writers, and traditional narratives imply that the burdens of war are carried by men. But women and children disproportionately suffer the consequences of conflict: famine, disease, sexual abuse, and emotional trauma caused by loss of loved ones, property, and means of subsistence. Collateral Damage tells the stories of those who struggle on the margins of armed conflict or who attempt to rebuild their lives after a war. Bringing together the writings of female authors from across the world, this collection animates the wartime experiences of women as military mothers, combatants, supporters, war resisters, and victims. Their stories stretch from Rwanda to El Salvador, Romania to Sri Lanka, Chile to Iraq. Spanning fiction, poetry, drama, essay, memoir, and reportage, the selections are contextualized by brief author commentaries. The first collection to embrace so wide a range of contemporary authors from such diverse backgrounds, Collateral Damage seeks to validate and shine a light on the experiences of women by revealing the consequences of war endured by millions whose voices are rarely heard.

Biographie:
B?rbara Mujica is a novelist, short-story writer, essayist, and scholar. Her international bestseller Frida has appeared in 18 languages and was a Book-of-the-Month alternate. Sister Teresa was adapted for the stage by The Actor's Studio in Hollywood. I Am Venus was a Maryland Writers Association National Fiction Competition winner in the category Historical Fiction and a quarter-finalist in the 2020 ScreenCraft Cinematic Novel Competition. Mujica's collection of stories, Far from My Mother's Home (Spanish edition: Lejos de la casa de mi madre) focuses on the immigrant experience. Mujica has won several prizes for her writing, including the E.L. Doctorow International Fiction Competition, the Pangolin Prize, and the Theodore Christian Hoepfner Award for short fiction. Three of the stories included in Imagining Iraq have been winners of the Maryland Writers' Association National Fiction Competition in the category Short Story: Imagining Iraq (third prize, 2010), Jason's Cap (first prize, 2015), Ox (second prize, 2016). Mujica's scholarly books include Religious Women and Epistolary Culture in the Carmelite Reform: The Disciples of Teresa de ?vila; Teresa de ?vila, Lettered Woman; and Teresa de Jes?s: Espiritualidad y feminismo; as well as the edited volumes Women Writers of Early Modern Spain: Sophia's Daughters and A New Anthology of Early Modern Spanish Theater: Play and Playtext. Mujica is a professor emerita at Georgetown University, where she taught Spanish literature. The mother of a Marine, she was Faculty Adviser of the GU Student Veterans Association and co-chair of the Veterans Support Team, a coalition of administrators, faculty, and students striving to make Georgetown a more veteran-friendly campus. She was awarded the University President's Medal for her work on behalf of veterans in 2015. Her book Collateral Damage, an edited collection of women's war-writing, originated in a symposium she organized at Georgetown called Women Who Write about War. www.barbaramujica.com