Pluralism in the Iraqi Novel after 2003
Literature and the Recovery of National Identity
Seiten
2020
Lexington Books (Verlag)
9781498594622 (ISBN)
Lexington Books (Verlag)
9781498594622 (ISBN)
This book describes the change in Iraqi literature after 2003 in which pluralism, highlighting the reality of the heterogeneous religious makeup of the country, became a key concept. The author provides here an important study of the nature and contours of Iraqi religious culture and a unique map of Iraqi literature and the role of literary arts.
Pluralism in the Iraqi Novel is about the use of literature and the novel to express the new content of an Iraqi national identity constructed after the American invasion of 2003. Instead of the homogenizing national identity in Iraqi literature created before 2003, postoccupation literature presents Iraqi society as a kaleidoscope of multiple religious identities converging in an accommodating Iraqi national identity. The author argues that this could not have happened without the upheaval of 2003 and its consequent results: democracy and political restructuring that incorporated Shia for the first time into the ruling political coalition in recognition of their numerical majority. Literature was consequential to processing the complicated subject of Shia-Sunni relations and the sectarian identity of each and, even more, in the wake of the geopolitical events of 2003, literature was instrument in bringing representation of the Kurds, the small minorities, and even the last Jews of Iraq to the fore. As such, literature demonstrated its revolutionary power and formed the basis for a “New Iraq.”
Pluralism in the Iraqi Novel is about the use of literature and the novel to express the new content of an Iraqi national identity constructed after the American invasion of 2003. Instead of the homogenizing national identity in Iraqi literature created before 2003, postoccupation literature presents Iraqi society as a kaleidoscope of multiple religious identities converging in an accommodating Iraqi national identity. The author argues that this could not have happened without the upheaval of 2003 and its consequent results: democracy and political restructuring that incorporated Shia for the first time into the ruling political coalition in recognition of their numerical majority. Literature was consequential to processing the complicated subject of Shia-Sunni relations and the sectarian identity of each and, even more, in the wake of the geopolitical events of 2003, literature was instrument in bringing representation of the Kurds, the small minorities, and even the last Jews of Iraq to the fore. As such, literature demonstrated its revolutionary power and formed the basis for a “New Iraq.”
Ronen Zeidel is research fellow in the Moshe Dayan Center in Tel Aviv University and deputy director of the Center for Iraq Studies in the University of Haifa.
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Shi?a in Iraqi Novels
Chapter 2: Sunnis and Novels in Iraq
Chapter 3: The Iraqi Novel and the Kurds
Chapter 4: The Iraqi Novel and the Christians of Iraq
Chapter 5: Gypsies in the Iraqi Novel: Between Marginality, Folklore and Romanticism
Chapter 6: On the Last Jews of Iraq and Iraqi National Identity: A Look at Two Recent Iraqi Novels
Conclusion: From Self Identity to Pluralism
Index
Bibliography
About the Author
| Erscheinungsdatum | 10.05.2021 |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 160 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 526 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam | |
| ISBN-13 | 9781498594622 / 9781498594622 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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