Abstract

This research studies the violence in the Iraqi novel feminism taking the Iraqi novelist (Hadiya Hussein) as a case study through the following ten novels: (Girl of Khan 2001, After Love 2003, On the Way to them 2004, Glass of Time 2006, Rain of God 2008, Women of Thresholds 2010, To Be Afraid 2012, The Rock of Hilda 2013, Riyam and Kafa 2014, Time of Joy 2015).

The study monitored the forms of political violence and its consequences which appeared in these novels, where the novel became a literary form that portrays the problems of society, no longer an imagined tale for entertainment and fill the leisure, so extrapolated fiction texts sponsor to clarify implicit cultural formats that disappear in and grow with the development of it.

The war had a largest share and most hideous in the forms of political violence, and the novelist has shown with possibility of brilliantly that the war does not burn soldiers only, but reflected its impact on the joints of the whole society, and woman has a large share of that fire, she is sponsoring in his absence and the shelter for the family, in addition of her lost and pain, as well as the psychological impact of the distorted life after the war on her, and the ensuing devastation.

The research has highlighted the three wars of Iraq, which included the studied novels, namely: (1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war, the occupation of Kuwait in 1990, the occupation of Iraq and the fall of the Iraqi government in 2003).

The immigration was a sign of bad reality, that echoed in the scene of the novels, and was politically motivated in this study, where the fear of the tyranny of the former regime, the cause of one of them, while immigration in the other coincided with the occupation of Iraq, and in third, it was after the occupation to escape from sectarian violence, which popularized in those dark era of the history of Iraq.

In addition, the other forms of violence didn’t forgot in this study, such as physical torture, economic blockade, the ruling party and its uniqueness of the provisions of the control of the country and the liquidation of opponents, as well as the chaos and sectarian killings, which became popular after the occupation.

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