Iraqi Novel

Key Writers, Key Texts

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013

Av Fabio Caiani, Catherine Cobham, University of St Andrews) Caiani, Fabio (lecturer, University of St Andrews) Cobham, Catherine (Lecturer

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Catherine Cobham and Fabio Caiani look in depth at four authors who started writing in Iraq in or around the 1950s to explore a pivotal moment in Iraqi novel writing. They analyse the key texts by Abd al-Malik Nuri, Gha'ib Tu'ma Farman, Mahdi Isa al-Saqr and Fu'ad al-Takarli, evaluating and comparing their aesthetic and poetic qualities. It is in these 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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Utgivningsdatum2013-08-23
Mått156 x 234 x 21 mm
Vikt600 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieEdinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature
Antal sidor280
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9780748641413

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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.

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