The interconnected inquiries help me to approach literary Iraqi identity poetics as an integral part of a parallel discourse that is working to unsettle the dominant official 2003 poetry of “Iraqiness” as well as the sectarian essentializations of post-2003 Iraqi society.
Dear Tara Khaled
Today in Iraq, there is definitely a tension between religious and secular approaches to reality and existence. But it would have helped a lot If your questions had been more elaborate. What do you mean by “religious protagonist” in poetry? Do you mean men of religion or pious men as hero and central personae in poetry? And why poetry? Do you have particular poets in mind? Do you mean elegiac poetry written to commemorate death of early Islamic figures?? If you ask me I feel that contemporary literature severely criticizes and satirizes religious men whether overtly or covertly. The future will see more Iraqi literature that pits piety and religious fanaticism against secularism.
We will be happy to see such a study, because it will read a scene from Arabic poetry (in Iraq). Greetings and good luc
Mahmoud El-Dabh, Cairo
As time shows religion has made a comeback in the Middle East. But as far as time is concerned, religion has never been a factor in our poetry. They being more secular. It remains to be seen whether because of politics, poetry too will be effected by the change.
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