title: The first generation of short-story writers in the UAE (1970–1990s). Part 2
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metadata.value: Suvorov, Mikhail N.
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metadata.value: 2018-12-03T16:06:51Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2018-12-03T16:06:51Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2018-09
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metadata.value: Suvorov М. N. The first generation of short-story writers in the UAE (1970–1990s). Part 2. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies, 2018, vol. 10, issue 3, pp. 340–357.
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metadata.value: 10.21638/spbu13.2018.305
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/15073
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metadata.value: The United Arab Emirates are one of those Arabic countries where national literature of
  modern type — which replaced Arabic medieval adab — came to 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 oddly, subjectively transformed.
  Moreover, some writers (Miryam Jum‘a Faraj, Su‘ād al-‘Arīmī, 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 ‘Abd al-Ḥamīd
  Aḥmad ‘Abd 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 Jum‘a al-Fayrūz’s writings). Some
  key themes, such as the influx of foreign laborers and the nostalgia for the old patriarchal
  ways of life, link Emirati short-story with other Arabic literatures of the Gulf, while giving it
  a distinctive feature in the wider Arabic literary context.
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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 3
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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 (1970–1990s). Part 2
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metadata.value: Article
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