Televised images of tortured and violated bodies during and after the US invasion of Iraq in 2003 altered the conceptualization of the body in Iraqi public space and, more visibly, in contemporary fiction. Iraqi modern fiction prior to the invasion used a recurrent representation to depict the body as an ideological exposition hall for masculine agents, where they expressed political concerns in sexual anxieties. Contemporary Iraqi fiction offers new employment of masculinity. In this article I provide a brief analysis of two extracts from The Corpse Washer (2010) by Sinan Antoon and Al-Rajʿ Al-Baīd “The Long Way Back” (1980) by Fou’ād Al-Tikerly, where I argue that contemporary Iraqi fiction establishes revolutionary and creative links bet...
The American occupation of Iraq, now widely acknowledged in many progressive and not-necessarily pro...
The article explores the role of women and changing gender relations in reconstruction processes in ...
This thesis examines gender relations in the war novel Ḥikāyat Zahra (1989) by the Lebanese author...
Sinan Antoon’s The Corpse Washer (2013) constitutes an account of post-war Iraq narrated by an Iraqi...
In a literary milieu characterized by the progress of new and increasingly varied genres whose comb...
Sinan Antoon’s The Corpse Washer (2013) constitutes an account of post-war Iraq narrated by an Iraqi...
Operation Iraqi Freedom, the protracted conflict that lasted from March 2003 to December 2011, prese...
This article addresses one of the great issues about which global media remains silent: the rape of...
In the last years, more and more literary accounts of recent and current wars in the Middle East hav...
This article explores the role of Iraqi women in reconstruction processes by contextualising the cur...
This dissertation examines a literary mode of terror that has recently flourished in Iraqi and Egypt...
This article focuses on the English translation of Ahmed Saadawi’s Frankenstein in Baghdad (2018), e...
This paper examines the themes and sources of inspiration of the Iraqi postcolonial novel, limiting ...
The regime change of 2003 transformed the media environment in Iraq from one that was strictly limit...
Abstract In this thesis I examine selected works by contemporary Iraqi women novelists written du...
The American occupation of Iraq, now widely acknowledged in many progressive and not-necessarily pro...
The article explores the role of women and changing gender relations in reconstruction processes in ...
This thesis examines gender relations in the war novel Ḥikāyat Zahra (1989) by the Lebanese author...
Sinan Antoon’s The Corpse Washer (2013) constitutes an account of post-war Iraq narrated by an Iraqi...
In a literary milieu characterized by the progress of new and increasingly varied genres whose comb...
Sinan Antoon’s The Corpse Washer (2013) constitutes an account of post-war Iraq narrated by an Iraqi...
Operation Iraqi Freedom, the protracted conflict that lasted from March 2003 to December 2011, prese...
This article addresses one of the great issues about which global media remains silent: the rape of...
In the last years, more and more literary accounts of recent and current wars in the Middle East hav...
This article explores the role of Iraqi women in reconstruction processes by contextualising the cur...
This dissertation examines a literary mode of terror that has recently flourished in Iraqi and Egypt...
This article focuses on the English translation of Ahmed Saadawi’s Frankenstein in Baghdad (2018), e...
This paper examines the themes and sources of inspiration of the Iraqi postcolonial novel, limiting ...
The regime change of 2003 transformed the media environment in Iraq from one that was strictly limit...
Abstract In this thesis I examine selected works by contemporary Iraqi women novelists written du...
The American occupation of Iraq, now widely acknowledged in many progressive and not-necessarily pro...
The article explores the role of women and changing gender relations in reconstruction processes in ...
This thesis examines gender relations in the war novel Ḥikāyat Zahra (1989) by the Lebanese author...