Fabio Caiani, Catherine Cobham

Iraqi Novel (eBook, PDF)

Key Writers, Key Texts

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Produktbeschreibung

Studies a neglected area of postcolonial fiction, fostering a better understanding of Iraqi culture and society

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. Particular attention is paid 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

Key Features

• Includes an original study of works by Abd al-Malik Nuri and of the Baghdad cultural scene in the 1940s and 50s
• Pays particular attention to detailed textual analysis and the evaluation and comparison of the aesthetic and poetic qualities of the works considered
• Analyses Iraqi writings from a postcolonial and comparative perspective
• Studies the early pioneering works of Iraqi fiction

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. August 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780748685233
• Artikelnr.: 43668015

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements; Preface; 1 Introduction: The Awakening Story; 2 Revolutionary Pioneer: 'Abd al
Malik Nuri in Six Stories; 3 Realism and Space in the First Iraqi Novel; 4 From Khamsat Aswat to al
Markab: 'Writing about the People of Iraq'; 5 The Other Shore: Dialogue and Difference in Mahdi 'Isa al
Saqr's al
Shati' al
thani; 6 Two Houses, Two Women: Iraq at War in Mahdi 'Isa al
Saqr's Novels; 7 Reading and Writing in al
Masarrat wa
'l
awja' by Fu'ad al
Takarli; 8 The Long Way Back: Possibilities for Survival and Renewal in al
Raj' al
ba'id by Fu'ad al
Takarli; Epilogue: Reflections on Iraqi Fiction, Influence and Exile, or the Life and Times of Yusuf Ibn Hilal.