The Iraqi Novel
Key Writers, Key Texts
Catherine Cobham author Fabio Caiani author
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
Published:23rd Aug '13
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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.
A welcome analytical contribution to the understudied corpus of Iraqi fiction, which is bound to appeal not only to scholars of Arabic literature and literary analysis, but anyone interested in fiction, literary translation, and Iraqi culture.' -- Yasmeen Hanoosh, Portland State University * Journal of Arabic Literature *
This book fills a significant gap in critical studies in English of Arabic Literature, being the first major book on the modern Iraqi novel. I have no doubt it will be read with pleasure and profit by all who have an interest in the literature and history of modern Iraq. -- Professor Clive Holes, University of Oxford
ISBN: 9780748641413
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 600g
280 pages