![]() ![]() My colleagues rationalised my decision by the logic that I was British, and possibly knew the people in the Ministry in Baghdad. Relations between the KRG and the central government in Baghdad are seldom easy. There is a very strong legacy of authoritarianism and centralised bureaucracy in Iraqi education. They were about the anxiety that the text was not on the Baghdad Ministry of Higher Education’s approved list of modern novels to show British culture (which is how literature tends to be seen in an Iraqi English degree). ![]() Did you finally work them out?īARFIELD: In fact, my colleagues’ mysterious reservations about Mrs Dalloway had nothing to do with modernist difficulty, as I had originally thought. SAEED: You said that initially you did not understand your colleagues’ reservations about teaching Mrs Dalloway. ![]() In this second and final part of the interview, the pair discuss the wider contemporary resonances of identity in Mrs Dalloway with transcultural perspectives, and the pedagogical methods which inform this. In Part I of this interview, published in our October issue, Steven Barfield and Alan Ali Saeed discussed the students of Sulaimani University’s interactions with Mrs Dalloway and with modernism more broadly. Alan Ali Saeed, Sulaimani University, and Steven Barfield, London South Bank University ![]()
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