Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Shīʿa 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
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.
Ronen Zeidel’s excellent book is a must-read for anyone who is
interested in the history of modern Iraq, in post-dictatorship
societies, especially those that had been afflicted for generations
by malignant ethno-religious conflict. The book is also inspiring
for those who are looking for a ray of hope. Zeidel shows
how, almost over-night after 2003, Iraqi culture began to celebrate
diversity and pluralism rather than suppressing it as was the case
before the downfall of the Ba’th regime. The book shows how culture
and particularly the novel became a tool for repairing the wrongs
of past nation building attempts, and the vehicles for formulating
a more inclusive national Iraqi identity. Zeidel covers a
remarkably wide horizon of production mainly of young novelists and
his analysis is an eye-opener.
*Amatzia Baram, University of Haifa*
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