Messages in Bottles
An Archive of Black Iraqi Identity in Diaa Jubaili’s al-Biṭrīq al-Aswad
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20249163 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Chip Rossetti (Independent Researcher, Cranford, NJ 07016, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 82 |
| Publication date | 2021-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Humanities (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2076-0787 • E-ISSN: 2076-0787 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/h10020082 |
| OpenAlex | W3170044814 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 13 |
The novel al-Biṭrīq al-Aswad [The Black Penguin] by the Iraqi author Diaa Jubaili is a rare example of a contemporary Arabic novel that centers the experiences of Iraq’s Black population, most of whom live near Basra in Iraq’s south. The novel’s mixed-race narrator recounts his life story in the form of letters addressed to international figures, highlighting the life of his family on the margins of Iraqi society and his later involvement with the real-life civil rights group, the Movement of Free Iraqis. This article draws on Stuart Hall’s dual conception of cultural identity in diaspora to frame the characters’ search for a Black Iraqi identity as a dynamic engagement with memory, one that represents a counternarrative in the face of legacies of African slavery and legal discrimination
Aesthetics · Arabic · Art · Civil rights · Diaspora · Political science · Population · Social science · Sociology · Demography · Gender Studies · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · Hispanic-African Historical Relations · History · Law · Philosophy · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies
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| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |