Conflicting narratives : war, trauma and memory in Iraqi culture / Milich, Pannewick, Tramontini (eds.).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Milich, Stephan, 1975-

Pannewick, Friederike

Tramontini, Leslie

Class of 1891 Department of Arts Fund.

Series:

Literaturen im Kontext ; v. 35.

Literatures in context = Literaturen im Kontext, arabisch-persisch-türkisch ; Bd.35

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arabic literature--Iraq--20th century--History and criticism.

Arabic literature.

Arabic literature--Iraq--21st century--History and criticism.

War in literature.

Collective memory--Iraq.

Collective memory.

Traumatism--In literature.

Traumatism.

Intellectual life.

Iraq--Intellectual life.

Iraq.

Physical Description:

xviii, 268 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Wiesbaden : Reichert, 2012.

Summary:

This volume deals with the Iraqi cultural production under and after Baathist rule, a research field which in comparison to Iraqi history and politics has attracted relatively little scholarly attention. Analyzing the impact of dictatorship, sanctions, and successive wars on Iraqi culture, the dominant narratives and counter narratives are elaborated in detail. Special emphasis is laid on the analysis and critical re-evaluation of the cleavages running through Iraqi society. Several articles explore new points of departure and strategies of subversive writing, resisting repression and a culture of coercion.

Further contributions deal with the literary representations of the various identities and cultural memories of contemporary Iraq. Book jacket.

Contents:

I Cultural and Political Narratives

Debating Iraqi Culture: Intellectuals between the Inside and the Outside / Fatima Mohsen Mohsen, Fatima 5

The Struggle for Representation: The Internal Iraqi Dispute over Cultural Production in Baathist Iraq / Leslie Tramontini Tramontini, Leslie 25

Hashemite Iraq and the Pitfalls of Memory in the Recollections of Two Respondents to the Iraqi Oral History Project / Hala Fattah Fattah, Hala 49

II Poetics of Trauma

Dancing Letters: The Art of Subversion in Sinan Antun's Novel I'iam / Friederike Pannewick Pannewick, Friederike 65

Between Heroism, Hesistancy, Resignation and New Hope: The Iran-Iraq War 1980-1988 in Iraqi Poetry / Wiebke Walther Walther, Wiebke 75

Between the Unknown Soldier Monument and the Cemetery: Commemorating Fallen Soldiers in Iraq, 1958-2010 / Amatzia Baram Baram, Amatzia, Achim Rohde Rohde, Achim, Ronen Zeidel Zeidel, Ronen 109

Time and Place in Contemporary Iraqi Poetry post-2003: An Inner Iraqi Perspective / Flayh Rikabi Rikabi, Flayh 125

The Other Martyr: The Trauma of War and Exile in the Poetry of Kamal Sabti (1955-2006) 141

III The Dialectic of Home and Exile

Iraqi Playwrights and the (Un) Reality of War / Christiane Schlote Schlote, Christiane 161

Iraqi Poetry of the Diaspora / Abdulwahid Lu'lu'a Lu'lu'a, Abdulwahid 181

Another Story to Be Told: Iraqi Novels of Exile in Sweden / Astrid Ottosson al-Bitar al-Bitar, Astrid Ottosson 199

Violence from a Distance: Trauma in Iraqi-German Literature / Andreas Pflitsch Pflitsch, Andreas 215

IV Shahadat: Essays on the Poetic Semantics of the "Iraqi Place"

Place and Memory: Writing the "Iraqi Place" / Atef Botros Botros, Atef 227

Najaf: Beyond Theology and Dreams / Haydar Sa'id Sa'id, Haydar 231

Thawra City: Native Dust in the Wind / Ahmad Sa'dawi Sa'dawi, Ahmad 237

Qal'at Sukkar: City of Three Gardens / Safa 'Alwan 'Alwan, Safa 245

War Turf: Nights and Days / Jasim 'Asi 'Asi, Jasim 253

Switzerland: Kingdom beyond the Sun / Abbas Khider Khider, Abbas 259.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1891 Department of Arts Fund.

ISBN:

9783895008061

3895008060

OCLC:

788255140