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
Muzakkirat Fattuma al-kuwaytiyya as-saghira (Recollections of a Small Kuwaiti Fattuma)
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
Muzakkirat Fattuma al-kuwaytiyya as-saghira (Recollections of a Small Kuwaiti Fattuma) published in 1992 deals with the period of armed aggression against Kuwait – from the first day, i.e. 2nd of August 1992 to the last day, which was the 26th of February 1991 – as seen through the eyes of a child. Fattuma, Thurayya's then nine-year-old daughter notes down her recollections with her mother's help and illustrates them with own illustrations.
This text increases in world literature the genre of children's confessions collected in the form of prose, the foremost example of which in Europe is Anne Frank's Diary. The war experiences of children are always the greatest violation of their rights and undeserved wrong, the traces of which are usually felt through their whole life. They will not be children, but they are already people – wrote Janusz Korczak, the great friend of children and defender of their rights: They deserve a third of the produce and riches of the earth – out of right and not charity. The fruits of a third of the victories of human thought are theirs – he wrote demanding equal rights for children in relation to adults and their protection in the face of cruel reality. Relating to the last cited thought Fattuma's diary seems to be such a victory of thought. Returning once more to Korczak's thinking from the reading of Muzakkirat Fattuma al-kuwaytiyya as-saghira (Recollections of a Small Kuwaiti Fattuma) strikes the certainty of the truth in his superb identification of the human relation of generations, which he had already concluded in the ghetto in addressing children in the orphanage: And this is the truth that everyone ought to understand and remember well: we are bringing you up, but you are also bringing us up.
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- Transcending TraditionsThurayya al-Baqsami- A Creative Compilation- Poetry, Prose and Paint, pp. 57 - 62Publisher: Jagiellonian University PressPrint publication year: 2009