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The Style of Thurayya Al-Baqsami's Short Stories

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 September 2014

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There is no doubt that Thurayya Al-Baqsami is a writer through and through. This is shown by her constant passion for writing since she was a child, as well as her personal attitude. This is the attitude of a person who is open to the formulation artistically of the generality of the problems surrounding human life, as well as being embracing their individual elements of time and place. Her characteristic formulation of utterance is the self-recognition of herself as a competent and just witness of the world, though equally as a polemist gifted with the ability to perceive reality in a non-superficial and artistic way. The writer allows herself to be presented as an accuser and guide, a sensitive reporter and desperate participant in the life that surrounds. Thurayya Al-Baqsami, in directing attention to the problem matter of the human personage, comes across the common aspirations of philosophy and European literature. Due to the place in which her style is created there arises the need for a wider meaning and more artistic conception of known and created values. There is evident in her writing the tendency for a forced and speedy rescue from oblivion of the old images of Kuwait, as equally a defensive attitude as well as non-conformist in the face of the advancing autonomy of contemporary individuals, behind which there starts to gather the anonymous and culturally faceless ‘mass’, known from the warnings of Elias Canetti.

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Transcending Traditions
Thurayya al-Baqsami- A Creative Compilation- Poetry, Prose and Paint
, pp. 71 - 74
Publisher: Jagiellonian University Press
Print publication year: 2009

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