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Frankenstein a Bagdad

Meyer, France

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Ahmed Saadawi modern-day Frankenstein novel set in Baghdad won the Arab world's top prize for fiction in 2014. Frankenstein in Baghdad captures the impossibility of justice in the aftermath of decades of war and violence in Iraq. Rather than focusing on witnessing as a way to document this troubled past/present, the magical realism of the narrative allows the author to explore the array of emotions of terror and vengeance that characterises the frayed fabric of life and justice in the country....[Show more]

dc.contributor.authorMeyer, France
dc.date.accessioned2019-11-25T03:45:53Z
dc.date.available2019-11-25T03:45:53Z
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/186586
dc.description.abstractAhmed Saadawi modern-day Frankenstein novel set in Baghdad won the Arab world's top prize for fiction in 2014. Frankenstein in Baghdad captures the impossibility of justice in the aftermath of decades of war and violence in Iraq. Rather than focusing on witnessing as a way to document this troubled past/present, the magical realism of the narrative allows the author to explore the array of emotions of terror and vengeance that characterises the frayed fabric of life and justice in the country. It is indeed a commentary on contemporary violence and its attempt to obscure and deny local and personal histories and wounds of ordinary Iraqis. It is a response to the simplistic characterization of Iraqis as ungovernable–torn between sectarian and ethnic identities and an attempt to exorcise the demons that haunt the life of ordinary people who are caught in the 'awe' of decades of brutality
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.language.isoen_AU
dc.rights© 2016
dc.source.urihttps://www.leslibraires.fr/livre/10158965-frankenstein-a-bagdad-ahmed-saadawi-piranha
dc.titleFrankenstein a Bagdad
dc.typeTranslation
local.description.notesThis item has been translated from Arabic to French.
dc.date.issued2016
local.identifier.absfor200523 - Middle Eastern Literature
local.identifier.ariespublicationu4334722xPUB251
local.publisher.urlhttps://www.leslibraires.fr/livre/
local.type.statusPublished Version
local.contributor.affiliationMeyer, France, College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANU
dc.date.updated2019-05-19T08:21:32Z
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