Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-258) and index.
Contents:
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.
Summary:
This work looks in depth at four authors - Abd al-Malik Nuri, Gha'ib Tu'ma Farman, Mahdi Isa al-Saqr and Fu'ad al-Takarli - who started writing in Iraq in or around the 1950s to explore a pivotal moment in Iraqi novel writing and a neglected area of postcolonial fiction.
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