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The Iraqi Novel : Key Writers, Key Texts /

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, evaluati...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Caiani, Fabio, Cobham, Catherine
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Colección:Edinburgh studies in modern Arabic literature.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : the awakening story
  • Revolutionary pioneer : ʻAbd al-Malik Nūrī in six stories
  • Realism and space in the first Iraqi novel
  • From Khamsat aṣwāt to al-Markab : 'writing about the people of Iraq'
  • The other shore : dialogue and difference in Mahdī ʻĪsā al-Ṣaqr's al-Shāṭiʼ al-thānī
  • Two houses, two women : Iraq at war in Mahdī ʻĪsā al-Ṣaqr's novels
  • Reading and writing in al-Masarrāt wa-ʹl-awjāʻ by Fuʼād al-Takarlī
  • The long way back : possibilities for survival and renewal in al-Rajʻ al-baʻīd by Fuʼād al-Takarlī
  • Epilogue : reflections on Iraqi fiction, influence and exile, or the life and times of Yūsuf Ibn Hilāl.