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
Conclusion
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
Thurayya Al-Baqsami, having an artistic bent and education, easily and gracefully moves within varied cultural areas, within her literary creativity, yet does not flaunt overwhelming erudition. She does not advance easy solutions, nor does she attempt to moralise, she does not impose on one's cultural models. Her sensitive artistic personality allows her to perceive the true image of society and the surrounding world. It allows her to show what is transitory, beautiful, ugly or bad.
She wants to give the reader an idea. To bring about a situation whereby for at least a moment he thinks about himself, people, the country, the Fatherland. Thurayya's creativity is full to the brim with humanistic content and bound in universal beauty.
Thurayya gets to the reader through image. Her word has the ability to conjure forth images. She is understood everywhere because her writing and art possesses a character and dimension that is simple, human and eternal.
Thurayya Al-Baqsami's work can be summed up in the words of Olga Bergholc:
For a real writer, devoted with their whole heart to the life and struggle of the nation, there cannot exist any danger in the process of writing about oneself and one's own life. No, here there is not threat of him contemplating his own navel, he is not involved in the description of personal frivolity, but instead in telling of his own heart even about its secret tremors he unfailingly tells of the heart of the nation.
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- Transcending TraditionsThurayya al-Baqsami- A Creative Compilation- Poetry, Prose and Paint, pp. 113 - 114Publisher: Jagiellonian University PressPrint publication year: 2009