Open AccessPost 2003 Iraq and Unhappy Reality: A Study in Sinan Antoon’s The Corpse Washer
Author(s) -
Rana Ali Mhoodar
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
galore international journal of applied sciences and humanities
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2456-8430
DOI - 10.52403/gijash.20211007
Subject(s) - dictatorship , impulse (physics) , viewpoints , aesthetics , washer , history , psychoanalysis , psychology , sociology , art , political science , law , visual arts , engineering , politics , physics , quantum mechanics , democracy , mechanical engineering
This paper focuses on the existence of traumatic indications, like flashbacks and nightmares, feebleness and submission, distorted viewpoints of both present and future, alienated and disoriented people, and the robust diasporic impulse. As a genre of literature, novel has developed to be a fundamental way in revealing one’s country’s being destructed and increasingly annihilated of its people. Novel in Iraq has touched surrealism, nonlinearity, fragmented events, and other techniques used in narrating and documenting the unescapable reality and the situations of trauma by which the country has suffered for years and years. Characteristics of both form and content are employed by Sinan Antoon employs and of those are fragmentation, nonlinearity, and nightmares to novelize the traumatic events experienced by the Iraqi people. Analysing the extracts has suggested that traumatic experience brought about by persistent occurrence of conflicts and dictatorship have turned the Iraqi people into traumatized characters and molded their existence, identity, and ties to the place.Keywords: Sinan Antoon, The Corpse Washer, Pos2003, Iraqi Novel, Fragmentation,