Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Series Editor’s Foreword vi
4. Acknowledgements viii
5. Preface x
6. 1. Introduction: The Awakening Story 1
7. 2. Revolutionary Pioneer: ʿAbd al-Malik Nūrī in Six Stories 30
8. 3. Realism and Space in the First Iraqi Novel 73
9. 4. From Khamsat aṣwāt to al-Markab: ‘Writing about the People of Iraq’ 115
10. 5. The Other Shore: Dialogue and Difference in Mahdī ʿĪsā al-Íaqr’s al-Ṣhāṭiʿ al-thānī 139
11. 6 Two Houses, Two Women: Iraq at War in Mahdī ʿĪsā al-Íaqr’s Novel 163
12. 7. Reading and Writing in al-Masarrāt wa-’l-awjāʿ by Fuʾād al-Takarlī 194
13. 8. The Long Way Back: Possibilities for Survival and Renewal in al-Rajʿ al-baʿīd by Fuʾād al-Takarlī 219
14. Epilogue: Reflections on Iraqi Fiction, Influence and Exile, or the Life and Times of Yūsuf Ibn Hilāl 241
15. Bibliography 247
16. Index 259