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Pluralism in the Iraqi Novel After 2003: Literature and the Recovery of National Identity
Contributor(s): Zeidel, Ronen (Author)

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 ISBN: 149859462X     ISBN-13: 9781498594622
Publisher: Lexington Books
OUR PRICE: $110.25  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: January 2020
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BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Islam - Sunni
- Religion | Islam - History
- Religion | Islam - Shi'a
Dewey: 892.737
LCCN: 2019953144
Physical Information: 0.63" H x 6" W x 9" L (1.09 lbs) 222 pages
Features: Bibliography
 
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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."
 
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