The Iraqi novel : key writers, key texts /: key writers, key texts. ([2013])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Fabio Caiani and Catherine Cobham.
• Authors: Caiani, Fabio, 1971-; Cobham, Catherine
• 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.
• Publisher Details: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press
• Publication Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource (xiv, 264 pages)
• Subjects: 892.7/36099567; Arabic fiction -- Iraq -- History and criticism; Arabic fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Arabic fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism; RELIGION -- Islam -- General; Arabic fiction; Roman; Arabisch; Iraq; Irak; Electronic books; Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780748685233; 0748685235; 0748695222; 9780748695225; 1299964044; 9781299964044
• Related ISBNs: 9780748641413; 0748641416; 9780748685257; 0748685251
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-258) and index.; Note: Print version record.
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