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War and Exile In Contemporary Iraqi Women’s Novels

Kashou, Hanan Hussam

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2013, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures.
This dissertation explores the representative works of several contemporary Iraqi women’s writing and the themes of war and exile employed in their narratives. Iraqi women focus their fictional narrative discourse and themes on the Iraqi war(s) and the political situation their nation faced over the past thirty years. The writers chosen for this study are a mere representation of the many Iraqi writers who focus their efforts and their writings on the war story. I argue that the themes of war and exile, and the historical and pragmatic vein that they write from, have come to dominate the discourse of Iraqi women. It has become the focal point of their themes which has come to serve as their national narrative. The framework Iraqi women articulate, this national narrative, is an embodiment of the violence they witness in their quotidian life in war and exile. They write this experience from a feminist impulse as well as through a maternal instinct to articulate the voice of the voiceless subaltern members of their society. They depict their national war story through the sub-narratives of the tumultuous experience of Iraqis. Women novelists, through their powerful depiction of the reality Iraqis experience, deliver a significant and necessary voice to their contemporary national narrative of war.
Joseph Zeidan, Dr. (Advisor)
Morgan Liu, Dr. (Committee Member)
357 p.

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  • Kashou, H. H. (2013). War and Exile In Contemporary Iraqi Women’s Novels [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1386038139

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Kashou, Hanan. War and Exile In Contemporary Iraqi Women’s Novels. 2013. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1386038139.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Kashou, Hanan. "War and Exile In Contemporary Iraqi Women’s Novels." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1386038139

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