War and Occupation in Iraqi Fiction
Seiten
2023
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-3995-2776-7 (ISBN)
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-3995-2776-7 (ISBN)
War and Occupation in Iraqi Fiction is a groundbreaking study of Iraqi fiction published after 2003 examining the depiction of marginal experiences of war in Iraqi history.
Examines tangible experiences of war and occupation in recent Iraqi fiction
Explores fictional works by a new generation of leading Iraqi authors such as Ali Badr, Shakir Nuri, Najm Wali and Hdiya Hussein
Provides a historical contextualization of the Iraqi novel before and after the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime
Presents an analytical and critical study of a selected corpus of novels about war and occupation in Iraq
Explores tangible experiences of war and occupation such as desertion, camp detention and suicide bombing in the Iraqi novel
The last three decades in Iraqi history can be summarized in these words: dictatorship, war and occupation. After the fall of Saddam's regime Iraqi novelists are not only writing about the occupation and the current disintegration of Iraq but are also revisiting previous wars that devastated their lives. This book examines how recent Iraqi fiction about war depicts the Iraqi subject in its relation to war, coercion, subjugation and occupation. The theoretical medieval concept of the homo sacer, the killable, as defined by Giorgio Agamben is used to explore the lives and the experiences of different war actors such as the soldier, the war deserter, the camp detainee and the suicide bomber depicted in their 'bare life' as men doomed to death in the necropolitical context.
War and Occupation in Iraqi Fiction is an exploration of fictional works by a new generation of leading Iraqi authors such as Ali Badr, Shakir Nuri, Najm Wali, Hdiya Hussein and others. It brings to light the overarching continuum in the production of homines sacri in Iraq. Instances of homo sacer under the dictatorship are complemented by new instances found in the camp and under the state of exception of the occupation and the war on terror.
Examines tangible experiences of war and occupation in recent Iraqi fiction
Explores fictional works by a new generation of leading Iraqi authors such as Ali Badr, Shakir Nuri, Najm Wali and Hdiya Hussein
Provides a historical contextualization of the Iraqi novel before and after the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime
Presents an analytical and critical study of a selected corpus of novels about war and occupation in Iraq
Explores tangible experiences of war and occupation such as desertion, camp detention and suicide bombing in the Iraqi novel
The last three decades in Iraqi history can be summarized in these words: dictatorship, war and occupation. After the fall of Saddam's regime Iraqi novelists are not only writing about the occupation and the current disintegration of Iraq but are also revisiting previous wars that devastated their lives. This book examines how recent Iraqi fiction about war depicts the Iraqi subject in its relation to war, coercion, subjugation and occupation. The theoretical medieval concept of the homo sacer, the killable, as defined by Giorgio Agamben is used to explore the lives and the experiences of different war actors such as the soldier, the war deserter, the camp detainee and the suicide bomber depicted in their 'bare life' as men doomed to death in the necropolitical context.
War and Occupation in Iraqi Fiction is an exploration of fictional works by a new generation of leading Iraqi authors such as Ali Badr, Shakir Nuri, Najm Wali, Hdiya Hussein and others. It brings to light the overarching continuum in the production of homines sacri in Iraq. Instances of homo sacer under the dictatorship are complemented by new instances found in the camp and under the state of exception of the occupation and the war on terror.
Ikram Masmoudi is Assistant Professor of Arabic Studies at the University of Delaware. She has translated Beyond Love a novel by Hadiya Hussein and is currently working on the translation of The Green Zone a novel by Iraqi author Shakir Nuri.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 21.10.2023 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Edinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature |
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-3995-2776-2 / 1399527762 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-3995-2776-7 / 9781399527767 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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