The Iraqi Novel : : Key Writers, Key Texts / / Fabio Caiani, Catherine Cobham.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Caiani, Fabio,; Cobham, Catherine,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Edinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature : ESMAL
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (280 p.)

Studies a neglected area of postcolonial fiction, fostering a better understanding of Iraqi culture and societyThis 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. Particular attention is paid 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 Key FeaturesIncludes an original study of works by Abd al-Malik Nuri and of the Baghdad cultural scene in the 1940s and 50sPays particular attention to detailed textual analysis and the evaluation and comparison of the aesthetic and poetic qualities of the works consideredAnalyses Iraqi writings from a postcolonial and comparative perspectiveStudies the early pioneering works of Iraqi fiction