From Conventional to Personal, or: What Happened to Metaphor Under the Influence of Ideology – the Case of Ghāʾib TuʿMa Farmān
This article discusses metaphors derived from the animal world, and used to describe relations between intellectuals and the authorities in mid-twentieth-century Iraq, against the backdrop of the conservative and conformist use of metaphor in Classical Arabic literature. The topic in question is exa...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2009
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Journal of Semitic studies
Year: 2009, Volume: 54, Issue: 1, Pages: 227-249 |
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| Summary: | This article discusses metaphors derived from the animal world, and used to describe relations between intellectuals and the authorities in mid-twentieth-century Iraq, against the backdrop of the conservative and conformist use of metaphor in Classical Arabic literature. The topic in question is examined through the narrative works of the twentieth-century exiled Iraqi Communist writer Ghāʾib Tuʿma Farmān (1927–90), who used animal metaphors as an artistic device through which he depicted himself as a Leftist intellectual persecuted by the government. The examples from Farmān's own works are considered in light of the use which other twentieth-century Arab writers make of animal metaphors, and the artistic needs which the latter serve. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-8556 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of Semitic studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jss/fgn051 |