title: The Colony of Aden in Post-Colonial Yemeni Novel
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metadata.value: Suvorov, Mikhail N.
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metadata.value: 2021-09-03T18:25:09Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2021-09-03T18:25:09Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2021-03
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metadata.value: Suvorov M. N. The Colony of Aden in Post-Colonial Yemeni Novel. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies, 2021, vol. 13, issue 1, pp. 32–50.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu13.2021.103
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/33048
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metadata.value: In many Arab countries, where colonial rule was replaced by local authoritarian, often corrupt,
  regimes, popular discontent with the living conditions under the new government has
  produced a kind of nostalgia for the colonial past. This nostalgia is well observed in today’s
  Aden (Republic of Yemen), which was a British colony from 1839 until 1967. In the middle
  of the 20th century, Aden was the most prosperous city on the Arabian Peninsula and one of
  the busiest seaports in the world. This article examines how this nostalgia is manifested in
  modern Yemeni literature, namely in three novels: Three Midnighters (1993) by Sa‘id Awlaqi,
  Adeni Incense (2014) by Ali al-Muqri, and Steamer Point (2015) by Ahmad Zayn (Zein). In
  the novel Three Midnighters, which takes place in the late 1980s, the allegory of Aden Colony
  is a cultural club, whose activities are remembered by the characters. The main characteristics
  of that club were its openness to all people, its atmosphere of freedom of thought, freedom of
  expression, mutual respect of its members, prosperity, love, and fun. In Adeni Incense, Aden
  Colony also resembles a wonderful club. The members of this club, that is, the characters of
  the novel, live in harmony, love, and prosperity — until evil external forces begin to destroy
  this club. The lack of realistic details in the depiction of the city and its inhabitants allows the
  reader to perceive the novel as allegorical rather than realistic. In Steamer Point, Aden Colony
  does not appear as a wonderful club, since the novel is written in a completely realistic manner.
  Nevertheless, Aden in the novel has two important features: the economic prosperity and
  peaceful coexistence of representatives of different cultures and different identities. It is these
  features of the city that one of the main characters, a sincere admirer of the British, is afraid to
  lose as a result of the British withdrawal.
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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 13; Issue 1
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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: Aden
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Said Awlaqi
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metadata.value: Ali al-Muqri
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Ahmad Zein
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The Colony of Aden in Post-Colonial Yemeni Novel
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metadata.value: Article
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