The Iraqi Novel Key Writers, Key Texts.
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, (c)2013.
- 1 online resource (281 pages)
- Edinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature .
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Cover; Title page; Copyright; Contents; Series Editor's Foreword; Acknowledgements; Preface; 1 Introduction: The Awakening Story; 2 Revolutionary Pioneer: .AAbd al-Malik Nurı in Six Stories; 3 Realism and Space in the First Iraqi Novel; 4 From Khamsat as·wat to al-Markab: 'Writing about the People of Iraq'; 5 The Other Shore: Dialogue and Difference in Mahdı .AIsa al-Saqr's al-Shatiʼ al-thanı; 6 Two Houses, Two Women: Iraq at War in Mahdı .AIsa al-Saqr's Novels; 7 Reading and Writing in al-Masarrat wa-'l-awja.A by Fuʼad al-Takarlı 8 The Long Way Back: Possibilities for Survival and Renewal in al-Raj.A al-ba.Aıd by Fuʼad al-TakarlıEpilogue: Reflections on Iraqi Fiction, Influence and Exile, or the Life and Times of Yusuf Ibn Hil; Bibliography; Index
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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Arabic fiction--History and criticism.--Iraq Arabic fiction--History and criticism.--20th century Arabic fiction--History and criticism.--21st century