The Iraqi Novel : Key Writers, Key Texts
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Edinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature
ISBN-10
1399565524
ISBN-13
9781399565523
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Imprint
Edinburgh University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 31st, 2026
Print length
280 Pages
Weight
438 grams
Dimensions
15.50 x 23.30 x 1.70 cms
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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. 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.
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