Conflicting Narratives
by Milich, Stephan; Pannewick, Friederike; Tramontini, LeslieFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2012-05-08
Publisher(s): Reichert Verlag
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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.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | p. ix |
| Introduction | p. xi |
| Cultural and Political Narratives | |
| Debating Iraqi Culture: Intellectuals between the Inside and the Outside | p. 5 |
| The Struggle for Representation: The Internal Iraqi Dispute over Cultural Production in Baathist Iraq | p. 25 |
| Hashemite Iraq and the Pitfalls of Memory in the Recollections of Two Respondents to the Iraqi Oral History Project | p. 49 |
| Poetics of Trauma | |
| Dancing Letters: The Art of Subversion in Sinan Antun's Novel I'iam | p. 65 |
| Between Heroism, Hesistancy, Resignation and New Hope: The Iran-Iraq War 1980-1988 in Iraqi Poetry | p. 75 |
| Between the Unknown Soldier Monument and the Cemetery: Commemorating Fallen Soldiers in Iraq, 1958-2010 | p. 109 |
| Time and Place in Contemporary Iraqi Poetry post-2003: An Inner Iraqi Perspective | p. 125 |
| The Other Martyr: The Trauma of War and Exile in the Poetry of Kamal Sabti (1955-2006) | p. 141 |
| The Dialectic of Home and Exile | |
| Iraqi Playwrights and the (Un) Reality of War | p. 161 |
| Iraqi Poetry of the Diaspora | p. 181 |
| Another Story to Be Told: Iraqi Novels of Exile in Sweden | p. 199 |
| Violence from a Distance: Trauma in Iraqi-German Literature | p. 215 |
| Shahadat: Essays on the Poetic Semantics of the "Iraqi Place" | |
| Place and Memory: Writing the "Iraqi Place" | p. 227 |
| Najaf: Beyond Theology and Dreams | p. 231 |
| Thawra City: Native Dust in the Wind | p. 237 |
| Qal'at Sukkar: City of Three Gardens | p. 245 |
| War Turf: Nights and Days | p. 253 |
| Switzerland: Kingdom beyond the Sun | p. 259 |
| List of Contributors | p. 265 |
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