Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-258) and index.

This work looks in depth at four authors - Abd al-Malik Nuri, Gha'ib Tu'ma Farman, Mahdi Isa al-Saqr and Fu'ad al-Takarli - who started writing in Iraq in or around the 1950s to explore a pivotal moment in Iraqi novel writing and a neglected area of postcolonial fiction.

Introduction : the awakening story -- Revolutionary pioneer : �Abd al-Malik N�ur�i in six stories -- Realism and space in the first Iraqi novel -- From Khamsat a�sw�at to al-Markab : 'writing about the people of Iraq' -- The other shore : dialogue and difference in Mahd�i ��Is�a al-�Saqr's al-Sh�a�ti� al-th�an�i -- Two houses, two women : Iraq at war in Mahd�i ��Is�a al-�Saqr's novels -- Reading and writing in al-Masarr�at wa-�l-awj�a� by Fu��ad al-Takarl�i -- The long way back : possibilities for survival and renewal in al-Raj� al-ba��id by Fu��ad al-Takarl�i -- Epilogue : reflections on Iraqi fiction, influence and exile, or the life and times of Y�usuf Ibn Hil�al.

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