Be Like Adam's Son - Theorising, Writing and Practising Peace in the Arab Region - Fernanda Fischione
5. Pluralism and Ethno-Religious Identities in Iraqi Fiction: ʿAbdullāh Ṣaḫī’s Trilogy on Thawra City
Be Like Adam's Son - Theorising, Writing and Practising Peace in the Arab Region - Fernanda Fischione
Antonio Pacifico [+]
Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3 / Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”
Antonio Pacifico is a PhD candidate at the Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3 / Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”. His research project, conducted under the joint supervision of Prof. Elisabeth Vauthier and Prof. Monica Ruocco, focuses from a sociological perspective on the (re)writing of national history carried out by several Iraqi novelists, playwrights, and poets since the 1990s. His research interests include contemporary Iraqi literature, the relation between literary and historical narratives, and Arab cultural history.
Description
Drawing on Bourdieu’s field theory, this chapter focuses on the trilogy written between 2008 and 2017 by the Iraqi writer ʿAbdullāh Ṣaḫī. It considers the trajectory and current position of this writer in the literary field and explores, from an ‘internal’ perspective, the representations of the Shia contained in his texts.