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Journal of Semitic Studies 2009 54(1):227-249; doi:10.1093/jss/fgn051
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From Conventional to Personal, or: What Happened to Metaphor Under the Influence of Ideology – the Case of Gharhringib TulhringMa Farman*

Hilla Peled-Shapira

Bar-Ilan University

This article discusses metaphors derived from the animal world, and used to describe relations between intellectuals and the authorities in mid-twentieth-century Iraq, against the backdrop of the conservative and conformist use of metaphor in Classical Arabic literature. The topic in question is examined through the narrative works of the twentieth-century exiled Iraqi Communist writer Gharhringib Tulhringma Farman (1927–90), who used animal metaphors as an artistic device through which he depicted himself as a Leftist intellectual persecuted by the government. The examples from Farman's own works are considered in light of the use which other twentieth-century Arab writers make of animal metaphors, and the artistic needs which the latter serve.

* I wish to thank Prof. Shmuel Moreh for having read this paper and made some illuminating comments.


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