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
Literary Characters in 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
In taking into consideration the diversity of motives within the construction of literary figures that feature in the short stories of Thurayya Al-Baqsami, together with the composite characteristic traits, the grouping of religious, social or even metaphysical motivations, the functioning of the main figures can be divided into four types. The first is the hero of traditional Kuwaiti society based partly on the old system of values and defined by a traditional way of life. The second is the hero of the modern society where the norms and conditions of life are to a greater degree connected to European ones, and are linked to the whole complexity of problems and dilemmas characteristic for the post-modernist era. The third is the hero of the period of the Iraqi-Kuwaiti conflict who is subordinated chronologically to the temporal-spatial events of the aggression, occupation and war of liberation, as well as the final fourth hero who is at the same time as if an element of one of the three remaining, yet who based both on the former style of life and the modern represents autobiographical features of the life of Thurayya herself and her family.
The main figures in Thurayya Al-Baqsami's short stories remain in so to say chronological accord with the development of her writing consciousness. Feeling her calling as a writer she avidly listened to her family's stories, diligently noting them down and elaborating with her own impressions. From these transfers there derive numerous autobiographical details which are richly scattered in the short stories.
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- Transcending TraditionsThurayya al-Baqsami- A Creative Compilation- Poetry, Prose and Paint, pp. 63 - 70Publisher: Jagiellonian University PressPrint publication year: 2009