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Titre : Naphtalene - Anovel of Baghdad Type de document : texte imprimĂ© Auteurs : Alia Mamdouh, Auteur ; Peter Theroux, Traducteur Editeur : the feminist press at CUNY AnnĂ©e de publication : 2006 Importance : 214p. ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 1558614932 Langues : Anglais (eng) CatĂ©gories : Roman Mots-clĂ©s : Baghdad, muslim feminity Index. dĂ©cimale : M-4.1 Romans, nouvelles et récits RĂ©sumĂ© : Seen through the eyes of a strong-willed and perceptive young girl, Naphtalene beautifully captures the atmosphere of Baghdad in the 1940s and 1950s. Alia Mamdouh vividly recreates a city of public steam baths, roadside butchers and childhood games played in the same streets where political demonstrations against British colonialism are beginning to take place.
At the heart of the novel is nine-year-old Huda, a girl whose fiery, defiant nature belies Western stereotypes of Muslim femininity. Both childishly innocent and acutely perceptive, Huda observes and documents the complex web of relationships in her family. Her father, a bullying police officer who works as a prison guard, treats his two children with vacillating tenderness and brutality and drives her desperately ill Syrian mother from the house after he takes a second wife. One aunt waits in vain for a man to marry her, while another engages in a sexual relationship with a woman but is forced to hide it.
Huda must struggle to form her identity amidst this world of unfulfilled women, of yearnings, frustrations and small tragedies. Her inspiration is her grandmother, a reservoir of strength, humor and of traditional storytelling, who manages subversively to wield great power in her family and her community.
Through Mamdouh’s strikingly inventive use of language, Huda’s stream-of-consciousness narrative expands to take in the life not only of a young girl and her family, but of her street, her neighborhood and her country.En ligne : http://covers.powells.com/9781558614925.jpg Naphtalene - Anovel of Baghdad [texte imprimé] / Alia Mamdouh, Auteur ; Peter Theroux, Traducteur . - the feminist press at CUNY, 2006 . - 214p.
ISSN : 1558614932
Langues : Anglais (eng)
CatĂ©gories : Roman Mots-clĂ©s : Baghdad, muslim feminity Index. dĂ©cimale : M-4.1 Romans, nouvelles et récits RĂ©sumĂ© : Seen through the eyes of a strong-willed and perceptive young girl, Naphtalene beautifully captures the atmosphere of Baghdad in the 1940s and 1950s. Alia Mamdouh vividly recreates a city of public steam baths, roadside butchers and childhood games played in the same streets where political demonstrations against British colonialism are beginning to take place.
At the heart of the novel is nine-year-old Huda, a girl whose fiery, defiant nature belies Western stereotypes of Muslim femininity. Both childishly innocent and acutely perceptive, Huda observes and documents the complex web of relationships in her family. Her father, a bullying police officer who works as a prison guard, treats his two children with vacillating tenderness and brutality and drives her desperately ill Syrian mother from the house after he takes a second wife. One aunt waits in vain for a man to marry her, while another engages in a sexual relationship with a woman but is forced to hide it.
Huda must struggle to form her identity amidst this world of unfulfilled women, of yearnings, frustrations and small tragedies. Her inspiration is her grandmother, a reservoir of strength, humor and of traditional storytelling, who manages subversively to wield great power in her family and her community.
Through Mamdouh’s strikingly inventive use of language, Huda’s stream-of-consciousness narrative expands to take in the life not only of a young girl and her family, but of her street, her neighborhood and her country.En ligne : http://covers.powells.com/9781558614925.jpg Exemplaires(1)
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Titre : La naphtaline Type de document : texte imprimĂ© Auteurs : Alia Mamdouh, Auteur ; François Zabbal, Traducteur Editeur : Actes Sud AnnĂ©e de publication : 1996 Importance : 212 p. ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-2-7427-0760-7 Langues : Français (fre) Langues originales : Arabe (ara) CatĂ©gories : Roman Index. dĂ©cimale : M-4.1 Romans, nouvelles et récits RĂ©sumĂ© : A la fin des annĂ©es quarante, dans un quartier populaire de Bagdad, une petite fille, Houda, affronte un monde en pleine dĂ©composition. Un monde dont les lieux, les ĂŞtres et les choses vont ĂŞtre gardĂ©s dans sa mĂ©moire comme de vieilles reliques qui sentent la naphtaline. Encore soumise Ă la domination coloniale britannique, la sociĂ©tĂ© irakienne nous est restituĂ©e telle que l’Histoire l’a forgĂ©e, tendre et violente, empreinte tantĂ´t d’une immĂ©moriale sagesse, tantĂ´t d’une terrible cruautĂ©. Elle ne semble tenir que par ses femmes, malgrĂ© leurs frustrations sociales et sexuelles, quand les hommes, le père, l’oncle, le frère, seigneurs de la maisonnĂ©e, manifestent, sous des dehors autoritaires, leur totale insignifiance.
Roman marquant de la littérature irakienne, La Naphtaline croise monologues et dialogues, en un jeu incessant de personnages qui s’interpellent dans une langue foisonnante et crue mêlant l’arabe littéraire et le dialecte de Bagdad.En ligne : http://www.actes-sud.fr/sites/default/files/imagecache/c_visuel_cat_w120px/couv_ [...] La naphtaline [texte imprimé] / Alia Mamdouh, Auteur ; François Zabbal, Traducteur . - Actes Sud, 1996 . - 212 p.
ISBN : 978-2-7427-0760-7
Langues : Français (fre) Langues originales : Arabe (ara)
CatĂ©gories : Roman Index. dĂ©cimale : M-4.1 Romans, nouvelles et récits RĂ©sumĂ© : A la fin des annĂ©es quarante, dans un quartier populaire de Bagdad, une petite fille, Houda, affronte un monde en pleine dĂ©composition. Un monde dont les lieux, les ĂŞtres et les choses vont ĂŞtre gardĂ©s dans sa mĂ©moire comme de vieilles reliques qui sentent la naphtaline. Encore soumise Ă la domination coloniale britannique, la sociĂ©tĂ© irakienne nous est restituĂ©e telle que l’Histoire l’a forgĂ©e, tendre et violente, empreinte tantĂ´t d’une immĂ©moriale sagesse, tantĂ´t d’une terrible cruautĂ©. Elle ne semble tenir que par ses femmes, malgrĂ© leurs frustrations sociales et sexuelles, quand les hommes, le père, l’oncle, le frère, seigneurs de la maisonnĂ©e, manifestent, sous des dehors autoritaires, leur totale insignifiance.
Roman marquant de la littérature irakienne, La Naphtaline croise monologues et dialogues, en un jeu incessant de personnages qui s’interpellent dans une langue foisonnante et crue mêlant l’arabe littéraire et le dialecte de Bagdad.En ligne : http://www.actes-sud.fr/sites/default/files/imagecache/c_visuel_cat_w120px/couv_ [...] Exemplaires(1)
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