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- Publication Name
- Reading Iraq : Culture and Power in Conflict
- Item Length
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- Publisher
- I. B. Tauris & Company, The Limited
- Series
- Library of Modern Middle East Studies
- Publication Year
- 2006
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- Textbook
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- Hardcover
- Language
- English
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- 1in
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- 17 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 216 Pages
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What exactly is Iraq? As a dramatic new era of Iraqi politics unfolds, Muhsin Al-Musawi seeks to understand it by dissecting the country's cultural anatomy. The first major work of its kind, "Reading Iraq" explores the profound connection between identity and power in Iraq's history, and in doing so provides a context for understanding today's complicated struggles. Drawing on a mixture of 'high' and popular forms of expression, Al-Musawi identifies the prevalent tropes of Iraqi culture, such as symbols of redemptive suffering amongst the Shi'ites, or courage amongst the Bedouins. He examines these symbols in historical and political context, arguing that establishing legitimacy in Iraq is a question of being able to read and respond to a wide variety of cultural signals. Al-Musawi begins by looking at the British attempt to establish constitutional monarchy in the first half of the 20th century. Whilst the British and their allies talked of parliament and flags, they failed to notice that sites of social power and authority had moved away from them towards the mosques and the tribal assemblies. His focus then moves to the Saddam Hussein's self-styled Baathist secular nationalism. Al-Musawi explains how, although expressions of sectarian and religious identity were initially subsumed into a pan-national dialogue on the future of Iraq, these cultural modes resurfaced as the gulf widened between the leadership and the people. Despite this differentiation of cultural and political identities, Al-Musawi discerns a genuine collective consciousness in Iraq. This is not the nationalist discourse artificially constructed by Saddam Hussein, but a common sense of heritage and of oppression, forged and re-forged with each historical moment. Whilst the political history of modern Iraq is characterised by occupation and dictatorship, in its cultural history Al-Musawi traces independence, pride and resistance. It is this dialectic of power and cultural memory which will shape the future of the country, and "Reading Iraq" offers new ways of understanding.
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I. B. Tauris & Company, The Limited
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1845110706
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9781845110703
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Publication Name
Reading Iraq : Culture and Power in Conflict
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Series
Library of Modern Middle East Studies
Publication Year
2006
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
216 Pages
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Item Length
9.5in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
6.4in
Item Weight
17 Oz
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Ds79.769
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"Reading Iraq is rich with information on Iraqi debates around education, identity, literary criticism, resistance and multi-culturalism." -Arab Studies Journal, "Reading Iraq is rich with information on Iraqi debates around education, identity, literary criticism, resistance and multi-culturalism." -Arab Studies Journal , ""Reading Iraq is rich with information on Iraqi debates around education, identity, literary criticism, resistance and multi-culturalism."" -Arab Studies Journal , "Reading Iraq is rich with information on Iraqi debates around education, identity, literary criticism, resistance and multi-culturalism."Arab Studies Journal
Table of Content
Preface * Reading Iraq Now: Functions and Markers of Culture * Power Relations and Cultural Dynamics Since the Mandate * Ideology, the Post-Independence State and Saddam's Discourse * The Literary Politic in Cultural Consciousness * Conclusion * Appendix I: Al-Sayyab's "Stranger at the Gulf" * Appendix II: Al-Sayyab's "Rain Song" * Appendix III: Lieut. General Sir Stanley Maude's Proclamation, March 19, 1917 Preface * Reading Iraq Now: Functions and Markers of Culture * Power Relations and Cultural Dynamics Since the Mandate * Ideology, the Post-Independence State and Saddam's Discourse * The Literary Politic in Cultural Consciousness * Conclusion * Appendix I: Al-Sayyab's "Stranger at the Gulf" * Appendix II: Al-Sayyab's "Rain Song" * Appendix III: Lieut. General Sir Stanley Maude's Proclamation, March 19, 1917
Copyright Date
2006
Target Audience
College Audience
Topic
Middle East / Iraq, World / Middle Eastern, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social Psychology, Middle East / General, Sociology / Social Theory
Dewey Decimal
956.70443
Dewey Edition
22
Genre
Psychology, History, Social Science, Political Science
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