Flowers of Flame: Unheard Voices of Iraq - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Flowers of Flame: Unheard Voices of Iraq write by Sadek Mohammed. This book was released on 2008. Flowers of Flame: Unheard Voices of Iraq available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Iraq's poets have suffered imprisonment, exile, and death for the truths they have dared to tell. Poetry is not a luxury in Iraq, but a vital part of the struggle for the nation's future. This is poetry that is feared by tyrants and would-be tyrants. You will find joy here as well as struggle. Arabic poetry has a long and rich tradition of ecstatic love, whimsical humor, and philosophic insight. Remarkably, charm and lightness of touch abound. Even the war invites you to a picnic from which you will not return untouched. Many of these poems were written in response to the American invasion of Iraq in 2003. "Tomorrow the War Will Have a Picnic," for instance, was composed on the eve of the "shock and awe" campaign against Baghdad. We see here, through Iraqi eyes, the fall of Saddam's statue, his trial, the ongoing sectarian violence, and the foreign invaders on both sides of the struggle."--BOOK JACKET.
Iraq's Modern Arabic Literature
Iraq's Modern Arabic Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Iraq's Modern Arabic Literature write by Salih J. Altoma. This book was released on 2010-10-14. Iraq's Modern Arabic Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Covering 60 years of materials, this bibliography cites translations, studies, and other writings, which represent Iraq's national literature, including recent works of numerous Iraqi writers living in Western exile. The volume serves as a guide to three interrelated data: o Translations that have appeared since 1950, as books or as individual items (poems, short stories, novel extracts, plays, diaries) in print-and non-print publications in Iraq and other Arab and English-speaking countries, including Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States. o Relevant studies and other secondary sources including selected reviews and author interviews, which cover Iraqi literature and writers. o The scope of displacement or dispersion of Iraqi writers, artists, and other intellectuals who have been uprooted and are now living in exile in Arab or other Western countries. By drawing attention to a largely overlooked but relevant and extensive literature accessible in English, this first of its kind book will serve as an invaluable guide to students of contemporary Iraq, modern Arabic literature, and other fields such as women's studies, postcolonial studies, third world literature, American-Arab/Muslim Relations, and Diaspora studies.
Welcome to the Suck
Welcome to the Suck - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Welcome to the Suck write by Stacey Peebles. This book was released on 2011-04-15. Welcome to the Suck available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Our collective memories of World War II and Vietnam have been shaped as much by memoirs, novels, and films as they have been by history books. In Welcome to the Suck, Stacey Peebles examines the growing body of contemporary war stories in prose, poetry, and film that speak to the American soldier’s experience in the Persian Gulf War and the Iraq War. Stories about war always encompass ideas about initiation, masculinity, cross-cultural encounters, and trauma. Peebles shows us how these timeless themes find new expression among a generation of soldiers who have grown up in a time when it has been more acceptable than ever before to challenge cultural and societal norms, and who now have unprecedented and immediate access to the world away from the battlefield through new media and technology. Two Gulf War memoirs by Anthony Swofford (Jarhead) and Joel Turnipseed (Baghdad Express) provide a portrait of soldiers living and fighting on the cusp of the major political and technological changes that would begin in earnest just a few years later. The Iraq War, a much longer conflict, has given rise to more and various representations. Peebles covers a blog by Colby Buzzell ("My War"), memoirs by Nathaniel Fick (One Bullet Away) and Kayla Williams (Love My Rifle More Than You); a collection of stories by John Crawford (The Last True Story I’ll Ever Tell); poetry by Brian Turner (Here, Bullet); the documentary Alive Day Memories; and the feature films In the Valley of Elah and the winner of the 2010 Oscar for Best Picture, The Hurt Locker, both written by the war correspondent Mark Boal. Books and other media emerging from the conflicts in the Gulf have yet to receive the kind of serious attention that Vietnam War texts received during the 1980s and 1990s. With its thoughtful and timely analysis, Welcome to the Suck will provoke much discussion among those who wish to understand today’s war literature and films and their place in the tradition of war representation more generally.
Performing Democracy in Iraq and South Africa
Performing Democracy in Iraq and South Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Performing Democracy in Iraq and South Africa write by Kimberly Wedeven Segall. This book was released on 2013-11-08. Performing Democracy in Iraq and South Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Reflecting twenty years of research and experience—after working with guerrilla fighters in the Kurdish region of northern Iraq, with Iranian refugees in Istanbul, with interreligious reconciliation groups in Morocco, and with former political prisoners in South Africa—Segall offers a groundbreaking study of globalization, gender, and resistance in public spaces. With timely correctives to the media lens of the Arab and African Spring, the author views protest not just as an economic and political act but also as a potential space of healing and creativity amidst contentious and gendered territories. Analyzing blogs, graphic novels, performances, and public testimonials, this book is unique in its attention to local expressions and creative use of technology to speak of political identities. With its impressive range of generational and gendered voices, Performing Democracy suggests hybrid protests that are voicing trauma, seeking change.
Modern Iraqi Poetry Since 1947
Modern Iraqi Poetry Since 1947 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Modern Iraqi Poetry Since 1947 write by Fadel Khalaf Jabr. This book was released on 2015. Modern Iraqi Poetry Since 1947 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This anthology captures the catalysts, motivations, inspirations, and outcomes of the free verse movement in Iraq from its inception in 1947 to the present day. It provides English readers with an understanding of the breadth of modern Iraqi poetry landscape by including translated poems within their political, economic, and social context. Beginning in Iraq in 1947, a free verse (shi`r hurr) movement emerged, completely altering the way much poetry would be written thereafter in the Arab World. Wanting to break free of traditional poetry's meters, meanings, and rhymes they found constraining poets began experimenting with new and different styles better able to capture the feelings, values, and events of current and contemporary life. Building on and encouraged by earlier efforts at innovation, they endeavored to break the rigidity of traditional poetry and express new attributes and domains: the dream world, free imagination, open narrative, folklore tales and legends, everyday life, surrealism and mythology. Over subsequent decades, poets furthered the free verse movement, adding their own conceptions of modernism and post modernism along with new styles, meanings, and mediums. Many anthologies of Arabic or Iraqi modern poetry have been published in the United States, such as: Fifteen Iraqi Poets, New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2013; Flowers of Flame: Unheard Voices of Iraq, Michigan State University Press 2008; Modern Arabic Poetry: An Anthology, Columbia University Press, 1987. However, despite the intentions of the editors, the content of these anthologies reveals several limitations. First, the anthologies introduce only a small portion of the wide Iraqi poetry landscape. Second, the poets selected are mainly those who are already known and internationally translated. Third, occasionally, poets are been selected based on personal preferences not by merit. Despite these limitations, the collections are valuable for introducing in English a flavor of Iraqi poetry. The current work sets out to fill the gaps in the preceding collections and be as resourceful, inclusive, and representative as possible. Poets were selected that represent the full Iraqi poetry landscape, not only those who are well-known and established. Besides bringing a mix of Iraqi poets from different decades, the anthology also provides background on the social, political, and cultural context that dominated each decade. In addition, the translation process used in this anthology distinguishes it from other collections. The distinctive features include: the translation process, the range of the selection, and the perspective on the translations. All poems included in this anthology went through a similar, four-step translation process, an academically controlled system not necessarily available or followed in other poetry collection translations. In Step 1 of this process, the translator produces a raw summary of the content of a poem. In Step 2, the translator generates a literal version, noting any implied cultural, political, linguistic or social references. In Step 3, the translator produces a clean draft translation, which he or she sends, along with the initial raw summary and the literal translation, to a native speaker for review and provision of feedback, in order to check the reception in the host language. In Step 4, the translator produces a final version of the translation, incorporating all the elements of the preceding steps. In addition, in selecting these poems, I attempted to maintain a neutral selection process, rather than promoting my personal preferences and own acquaintances as an Iraqi poet myself. A neutral selection process provides the anthology authenticity, credibility, and a fair representation. To begin, I collected a variety of samples from different poets actively publishing in each decade since the 1940s. To gain access to a wide range of Iraqi poets living both inside and outside Iraq, I used different sources, such as Iraqi newspapers, popular websites, interviews, and personal connections, to acquire poems for the anthology. The response was tremendous. From the numerous poems that I collected, I then selected the ones that best illuminated how the changes and events taking place within Iraq and its society have influenced poets and their poetry. The discussion of the trends and events taking place in the context where the poems were conceived and produced is an additional strength of this anthology.
