The Iraqi Novel : Key Writers, Key Texts (Edinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature)

Caiani, Fabio/ Cobham, Catherine

Edinburgh University Press（2026/05発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 280 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781399565523
• DDC分類 892.736

Full Description

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.

Contents

Preface

Introduction: The Awakening Story
Revolutionary Pioneer: 'Abd al-Malik Nuri in Six Stories
Realism and Space in the First Iraqi Novel
From 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-thani
Two Houses, Two Women: Iraq at War in Mahdi 'Isa al-Saqr's Novels
Reading and Writing in al-Masarrat wa-'l-awja' by Fu'ad al-Takarli
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