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
Symbol and Painting in Thurayya Al-Baqsami's Creative Output
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
As Manfred Lurker writes:
When we speak today about literary symbolism we constantly come up against Goethe, who totally accepted the world of phenomena yet saw in it a reflection of a higher reality. Real symbolism is perceived when that which especially represents the entirety does so not as dream and shade but as life and the momentary manifestation of that which is not banal.
In a further part of the interview he writes that the qualifications of a symbol can be: the carrier of meaning, pictorial concept, comparison, personification, paradigm, model, type, but also archetype, metaphor and allegory…
Thurayya Al-Baqsami's prose simply abounds in symbols which appear in the most varied of functions: obstruction, unveiling, drawing attention, the construction of the desired psychological mood, the achievement of an expression of truth or the pure disinterested functioning as a sign.
In the short story As-sursur (The Cockroach) from the collection As-sidra (The Lotus tree) the title insect is the construction axis for the whole short story. As a symbol it functions in two roles: the first of a direct impression which is disturbing, arousing repugnance, disgust and revolt as well as functioning in the role of ‘conveyor of negativity’. In this role it casts a shadow on the whole of life, almost damaging the wedding causing a panic-struck desire to leave the house. In a word it is a real plague.
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- Transcending TraditionsThurayya al-Baqsami- A Creative Compilation- Poetry, Prose and Paint, pp. 81 - 90Publisher: Jagiellonian University PressPrint publication year: 2009