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War and Exile In Contemporary Iraqi Women’s Novels
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Kashou, Hanan Hussam
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http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1386038139
Abstract Details
Year and Degree
2013, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures.
Abstract
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.
Committee
Joseph Zeidan, Dr. (Advisor)
Morgan Liu, Dr. (Committee Member)
Pages
357 p.
Subject Headings
Foreign Language
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Gender Studies
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Literature
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Middle Eastern History
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Middle Eastern Literature
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Middle Eastern Studies
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Modern Language
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Modern Literature
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Near Eastern Studies
Keywords
Iraqi Women Novelist
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Iraqi War
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Iraqi Exile
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Iraqi Literature
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Arabic Fiction
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Arabic Literature
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Arab Women Novelists
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Iraqi Novels
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Iraqi Fiction
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Arabic Novels
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Iraqi Women
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Iraqi Exile Literature
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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
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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