We Are Iraqis: Aesthetics and Politics in a Time of War

Name: We Are Iraqis: Aesthetics and Politics in a Time of War
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ISBN: 9780815633013

ISBN-10: 0815633017

ISBN-13: 9780815633013

Edition: 2012

Authors: Nadje Al-Ali, Deborah Al-najjar

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This title showcases written and visual contributions by Iraqi artists, writers, poets, filmmakers, photographers, and activists. Contributors explore the way Iraqis retain, subvert, and produce art and activism as ways of coping with despair and resisting chaos and destruction.

Book details

List price: $45.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Syracuse Univ Pr
Binding: Cloth Text
Pages: 320
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Contributors


Introduction: Writing Trauma, Memory, and Materiality




What Every Driver Must Know




Bifurcations of Iraq's Visual Culture




A Barbarian in Rome: Excerpts from a Diary




Putting Contemporary Iraqi Art on the Map: A Conversation with Maysaloun Faraj




The Assassination of Iraqi Academic Life: A Personal Testimony




My Own Private Munich




Hassan Abdulrazzak: A Selection




Retraining Sunni and Shi'i Discussions




Invisible Mirror: Aggression and the Thumb-Generation Response




Iraq: A Long Phantasmagorical Dream for Those Who Are Not Part of the New Capitalism or Retired Communism




Migratory Sacred Spaces: (Re)creating 'Ashura




(Dis)connectioned




Sophisticated Ways: Destruction of an Ancient City




My Trips to the Unknown




A Tale of Two Exiles




1001 Nights




Arab-Jews, Diasporas, and Multicultural Feminism: A Conversation with Ella Habiba Shohat




A Film-Training Project for Young Iraqis




Lyrical Resistance: The Example of Saadi Youssef




Larsa




Ur's Echo: Cosmopolitans and Radical Loss




Identity of the Numbers



Bibliography