Iraqi Novel

Key Writers, Key Texts

AvFabio Caiani,Catherine Cobham

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013

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This exploration of the work of Iraqi novelists begins with the early pioneering works and then moves towards an outline of the vibrant Baghdad cultural scene during the 1940s and 1950s. It pays articular attention to detailed textual analysis and the evaluation and comparison of the aesthetic and poetic qualities of the key works of the four writers who form the central subject of the book: Abd al-Malik Nuri (1921–98), Gha’ib Tu‘ma Farman (1927–90), Mahdi Isa al-Saqr (1927–2006) and Fu’ad al-Takarli (1927–2008) – all of whom began to write in or around the pivotal decade of the 1950s.It is in these writers’ works that Iraqi fiction came of age and reached artistic maturity. The best of them are among the most complex portrayals of the particularities of life in Iraq and the human condition in general to come out of the Arab world.

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Utgivningsdatum:2013-08-23
Mått:156 x 234 x 21 mm
Vikt:600 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Edinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature
Antal sidor:280
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9780748641413

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Fabio Caiani teaches Arabic in the Department of Arabic of the University of St Andrews. His research focuses on modern Arabic fiction. His publications (in either English or Italian) include the monograph Contemporary Arab Fiction: Innovation from Rama to Yalu (Routledge: 2007) on the Post-Mahfuzian novel, and studies of Yusuf Idris, Edwar al-Kharrat and Elias Khoury. Catherine Cobham is a lecturer in Arabic language and literature at the University of St Andrews. She has published research on Yusuf Idris, Naguib Mahfouz, Edwar al-Kharrat, Abdelilah Hamdouchi and Hanan Al-Shaykh. She has also translated the works of Adonis, Naguib Mahfouz, Mahmoud Darwish, Hanan al-Shaykh and Fuad al-Takarli, amongst others.

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A welcome analytical contribution to the understudied corpus of Iraqi fiction, which is bound to appeal not only to scholars of Arabic literature and literary analysis, but anyone interested in fiction, literary translation, and Iraqi culture.'

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PrefaceIntroduction: The Awakening StoryRevolutionary Pioneer: 'Abd al-Malik Nuri in Six StoriesRealism and Space in the First Iraqi NovelFrom Khamsat Aswat to al-Markab: 'Writing about the People of Iraq'The Other Shore: Dialogue and Difference in Mahdi 'Isa al-Saqr's al-Shati' al-thaniTwo Houses, Two Women: Iraq at War in Mahdi 'Isa al-Saqr's NovelsReading and Writing in al-Masarrat wa-'l-awja' by Fu'ad al-TakarliThe Long Way Back: Possibilities for Survival and Renewal in al-Raj' al-ba'id by Fu'ad al-TakarliEpilogue: Reflections on Iraqi Fiction, Influence and Exile, or the Life and Times of Yusuf Ibn Hilal