Reading Iraq - Culture and Power in Conflict

Informationen zum Autor Muhsin J. al-Musawi is Professor of Arabic Studies at Columbia University, New York. He also holds a university Professorship at the American University of Sharjah, UAE. He is the editor of the Journal of Arabic Literature, and has written 27 books in both Arabic and English. In 2002 he received the prestigious Owais Award for literary criticism. Klappentext As a dramatic new era of Iraqi politics unfolds! Muhsin al-Musawi shows how artificially imposed notions of constitutional monarchy and secular nationalism failed to take root in the Iraqi sensibility! and instead provoked a broad-based counterculture of resistance. In a penetrating historical analysis! Musawi demonstrates the attractions of sectarianism and religion during periods of occupation and oppression. Zusammenfassung Explores the connection between identity and power in Iraq's history, and provides a context for understanding complicated struggles. Drawing on a mixture of 'high' and popular forms of expression, this book identifies the tropes of Iraqi culture, such as symbols of redemptive suffering amongst the Shi'ites, or courage amongst the Bedouins.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Muhsin al-Musawi
• Verlag: Tauris, I.B.
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 29.03.2006
• EAN: 9781845110703
• ISBN: 978-1-84511-070-3
• Seiten: 216
• Serien: Library of Modern Middle East Studies; Library of Modern Middle East; Library of Modern Middle East; Library of Modern Middle East Studies
• Themen: Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Geowissenschaften > Geografie; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Ethnologie > Völkerkunde