title: The first generation of short-story writers in the UAE (1970–90s). Part 1
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metadata.value: Suvorov, Mikhail N.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2018-08-16T15:02:51Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2018-08-16T15:02:51Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2018-06
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metadata.value: Suvorov М. N. The first generation of short-story writers in the UAE (1970–90s). Part 1. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies, 2018, vol. 10, issue 2, pp. 230–245.
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metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu13.2018.207
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/14747
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The United Arab Emirates are one of those Arabic countries where national literature of modern
  type — which replaced Arabic medieval adab — came into existence as late as in the 1970s.
  Nevertheless, among the earliest Emirati short-stories, most of which were based on the principles
  of moralizing sentimentalism and romanticism, one could find samples of mature realism
  (in Muḥammad al-Murr’s writings) and even of modernism (in Abdullah al-Mirrī’s writings).
  In the 1980s along with the steady development of the realistic trend in Emirati fiction,
  many writers turned to the aesthetics of modernism by abandoning in their works the idea
  of objective reality, as well as clear plots, and concentrating instead on “internal” states of the
  mind, in which the objective reality is odd, subjectively transformed. Moreover, some writers
  (Miryam Jumʻa Faraj, Suʻād al-ʻArīmī, Ḥārib al-Ẓāhirī, Salmā Maṭar Ṣayf) used a complicated
  language of narration, full of similes and metaphors typical for Arabic poetry, as well as
  ornate lexical-syntactical constructions, reproducing thus a specific style, which was named
  by scholars of Arabic literature “poetic modernism”. Besides, in some Emirati short-stories of
  that time, one can find features of magic realism (in ʻAbd al-Ḥamīd Aḥmad ʻAbd al-Ḥamīd’s
  and Salmā Maṭar Ṣayf’s works), absurdism (in Ẓabiyya Khamīs’s works) and post-modernist
  parody (in Salmā Maṭar Ṣayf’s works). The themes of Emirati short-stories embrace Emirati
  local realities and problems, as well as general human and philosophic subjects (in particular,
  in Bāsima Yūnis’s and Jumʻa al-Fayrūz’s writings).
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies;Volume 10; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: the United Arab Emirates
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Arabic literature
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Arabic prose
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The first generation of short-story writers in the UAE (1970–90s). Part 1
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metadata.value: Article
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