From its inception in the northern city of Mosul in the late nineteenth century, Iraqi theatre leaned toward the utopian. Iraqis saw themselves as inheritors of the ancient culture of Mesopotamia, and dramatists frequently referred to the region's rich history as they imagined the future.
However, in 2003, the United States invasion of Iraq propelled Iraqi theatre in an altogether different direction. Global media published photographs documenting the torture of Iraqi detainees by American soldiers and sectarian violence broke out, as Shi?a and Sunni militias struggled for power. Theatre of Iraq Under Occupation examines the occupation's impact on Iraqi theatre as eliciting lamentation over loss of homeland and identity, and as an assault on the Iraqi character itself. The first volume in English dedicated solely to theatre in Iraq, James Al-Shamma and Amir Al-Azraki's insights don't just offer a significant contribution to cultural studies, they bridge foreign policy and art in real time.
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Lamentation, Homeland, Identity
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Lamentation, Homeland, Identity
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Military & Maritime HistoryTable of contents
- Cover
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part 1. Failure of the National Project
- Part 2. Terror in the Homeland
- Part 3. Political and Social Satire and Commentary
- Epilogue. Afro-Iraq Ritual: Affirming and Reinforcing Homeland and Identity
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Series List
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