Gothic Politics in Ahmed Saadawi’s Frankenstein in Baghdad (2013)
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چکیده
The present article examines a narrative of darkness to illuminate the rhetoric haunting and monstrosity. Gothicity evokes sense indeterminateness it dramatizes disruptive incorporeal occurrences as interrogated in Ahmed Saadawi’s Frankenstein Baghdad , war Frankenfiction. It stages horror chronicle national disintegration through rise sewn-together zombie mark appalling arrival Iraqi dissenter. new twenty-first-century monster is defy marginality associate monstrosity with deviance abnormality. Within this rationale, study investigates aesthetics Postcolonial Gothic politics examine use supernatural, grotesque body, monstrous abject, haunted ruins depict dismembered nation deployment eerie motifs surreal techniques. My premise fleshes out hubris dismantle US political culture Iraq. aim reframe modern an emblem reverse colonialism imperialist ideologies articulate past trauma bodily horror, ghostly fear.
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عنوان ژورنال: Arab Studies Quarterly
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['0271-3519', '2043-6920']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.13169/arabstudquar.44.2.0045