Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Life Story
- The Collection of Short Stories Al-'araq al-aswad (The Black Sweat)
- The Collection of Short Stories As-sidra (The Lotus Tree)
- The Collection of Short Stories Shumu' as-saradib (Cellar Candles)
- The Collection of Short Stories Rahil an-nawafiz (The Windows' Flight)
- Muzakkirat Fattuma al-kuwaytiyya as-saghira (Recollections of a Small Kuwaiti Fattuma)
- Literary Characters in Thurayya Al-Baqsami's Short Stories
- The Style of Thurayya Al-Baqsami's Short Stories
- The Image of War in the Eyes of Thurayya Al-Baqsami
- Symbol and Painting in Thurayya Al-Baqsami's Creative Output
- Tradition, Modernity and Innovation in the Creativity of Thurayya Al-Baqsami
- Fi kaffi ‘usfura zarqa’ (The Blue Sparrow on My Palm) – Thurayya Al-Baqsami's Poetical World
- Conclusion
- Appendix 1 Simplified Transliteration of Arabic Names and Titles, used in the book, and its equivalent in the English Transliteration System
The Style of Thurayya Al-Baqsami's Short Stories
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 September 2014
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Life Story
- The Collection of Short Stories Al-'araq al-aswad (The Black Sweat)
- The Collection of Short Stories As-sidra (The Lotus Tree)
- The Collection of Short Stories Shumu' as-saradib (Cellar Candles)
- The Collection of Short Stories Rahil an-nawafiz (The Windows' Flight)
- Muzakkirat Fattuma al-kuwaytiyya as-saghira (Recollections of a Small Kuwaiti Fattuma)
- Literary Characters in Thurayya Al-Baqsami's Short Stories
- The Style of Thurayya Al-Baqsami's Short Stories
- The Image of War in the Eyes of Thurayya Al-Baqsami
- Symbol and Painting in Thurayya Al-Baqsami's Creative Output
- Tradition, Modernity and Innovation in the Creativity of Thurayya Al-Baqsami
- Fi kaffi ‘usfura zarqa’ (The Blue Sparrow on My Palm) – Thurayya Al-Baqsami's Poetical World
- Conclusion
- Appendix 1 Simplified Transliteration of Arabic Names and Titles, used in the book, and its equivalent in the English Transliteration System
Summary
There is no doubt that Thurayya Al-Baqsami is a writer through and through. This is shown by her constant passion for writing since she was a child, as well as her personal attitude. This is the attitude of a person who is open to the formulation artistically of the generality of the problems surrounding human life, as well as being embracing their individual elements of time and place. Her characteristic formulation of utterance is the self-recognition of herself as a competent and just witness of the world, though equally as a polemist gifted with the ability to perceive reality in a non-superficial and artistic way. The writer allows herself to be presented as an accuser and guide, a sensitive reporter and desperate participant in the life that surrounds. Thurayya Al-Baqsami, in directing attention to the problem matter of the human personage, comes across the common aspirations of philosophy and European literature. Due to the place in which her style is created there arises the need for a wider meaning and more artistic conception of known and created values. There is evident in her writing the tendency for a forced and speedy rescue from oblivion of the old images of Kuwait, as equally a defensive attitude as well as non-conformist in the face of the advancing autonomy of contemporary individuals, behind which there starts to gather the anonymous and culturally faceless ‘mass’, known from the warnings of Elias Canetti.
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- Transcending TraditionsThurayya al-Baqsami- A Creative Compilation- Poetry, Prose and Paint, pp. 71 - 74Publisher: Jagiellonian University PressPrint publication year: 2009