title: Half-century of Sociopolitical Transformations in Yemen in Habib Saruri’s Columnist Style Novels
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metadata.value: Suvorov, Mikhail N.
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metadata.value: 2020-10-22T11:14:35Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2020-10-22T11:14:35Z
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metadata.value: 2020-09
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metadata.value: Suvorov M.N. Half-century of Sociopolitical Transformations in Yemen in Habib Saruri’s Columnist Style Novels. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies, 2020, vol. 12, issue 3, pp. 380–397.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu13.2020.305
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/20020
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: After the unification of North and South Yemen into a single state in 1990, some Yemeni
  writers tried to rethink in a literary form the country’s recent past, which was presented in
  the literature of the previous period in an ideologically embellished form. One of the first
  authors to do so was Habib Saruri, a Yemeni-born computer scientist who lives permanently
  in France. In his first novel, The Ruined Queen (1998), he described the life of South Yemen
  in the first half of the 1970s, during the period of active implementation of the theory of
  scientific socialism in the country. The success of the novel encouraged Saruri to continue
  writing, and to date he has published nine novels. In most of his works, the writer focuses on
  the sociopolitical transformations that Yemen has gone through over the past half-century,
  including the socialist experiment of the 1970–80s and the civil war of 1986 in the South, the
  consequences of this war for the losing side, the process of rapprochement and unification of
  the two parts of Yemen, the civil war of 1994 in the united Yemen and its consequences for
  the South, the spread of radical Islamism, the revolution of 2011 and further political chaos,
  the Houthis’ attempt to capture Aden in 2015, and the current military campaign of the Arab
  coalition against the Houthis. Saruri treats the events of Yemen’s modern history boldly and
  straightforwardly, in a manner characteristic of a columnist, and most of his works resemble
  journalism, presented in the form of a novel. This article examines the picture of the modern
  history of Yemen presented in six of Saruri’s novels: The Ruined Queen (1998), Damlan (2004),
  The Bird of Destruction (2005), Suslov’s Daughter (2014), The Grandson of Sinbad (2016), and
  Revelation (2018).
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metadata.value: en
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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 12; Issue 3
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Arab literature
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Arab novel
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Yemen
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Habib Saruri (Sarori)
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Half-century of Sociopolitical Transformations in Yemen in Habib Saruri’s Columnist Style Novels
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metadata.value: Article
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