Violence In 'The Corpse Washer'
The Corpse Washer can be seen as a novel about Hussein’s dictatorship, about post Iraq war’s situation but likewise as a novel that tries to clarify and show the invasion of America into Iraq because they want to change the Iraqi way of life after arresting Saddam Hussein.
In either way the novel contains violence. In different shapes, ways, and appearances violence in Iraq is depicted. To describe the violence produced in Iraq it is obvious to do it with the help of language. Violent terms with negative connotations as “corpse” and “dictatorship” are used to clarify the violent undertone, which dominate the Iraqi way of life.
Jawad paraphrases and circumscribes but likewise directly describes the violence his family and, in general, the
country got exposed. He, in both ways, manages to exalt the imagination in the reader, whose interest needs to be satisfied because the reader wants to imagine the local situation and wants to develop comprehension for the Iraqis.
The novel skips the part of dictatorship, although sometimes the dictator is named and the term is verbalized, in Iraq and concentrates on the post-dictatorship time with the American invasion into Iraq. Therefore the dictatorship is not as detailed described as the time after it. The Corpse Washer is a post-dictatorship novel that concentrates on the time after Hussein and on the dreams and fears of the protagonist, Jawad, who wants to have a better life and benefit from the outcome of war and the invasion of America.
The Corpse Washer contains violence in its language, Jawad’s description of dictatorship and war on the surface. It climaxes and is directly visual in the work, which is more than when his father worked in the mghaysil, Jawad has to do because the murders and war climaxes and more and more people die that need to have the Islamic washing procedure to be prepared for their funeral.
The Corpse Washer is a novel about violence that shows the situation experienced by the growing protagonist, Jawad. In a country, which was undergoing different states of political and military situations, fear and dread was a daily reflex, because bombings and murder became routine.
In either way the novel contains violence. In different shapes, ways, and appearances violence in Iraq is depicted. To describe the violence produced in Iraq it is obvious to do it with the help of language. Violent terms with negative connotations as “corpse” and “dictatorship” are used to clarify the violent undertone, which dominate the Iraqi way of life.
Jawad paraphrases and circumscribes but likewise directly describes the violence his family and, in general, the
country got exposed. He, in both ways, manages to exalt the imagination in the reader, whose interest needs to be satisfied because the reader wants to imagine the local situation and wants to develop comprehension for the Iraqis.
The novel skips the part of dictatorship, although sometimes the dictator is named and the term is verbalized, in Iraq and concentrates on the post-dictatorship time with the American invasion into Iraq. Therefore the dictatorship is not as detailed described as the time after it. The Corpse Washer is a post-dictatorship novel that concentrates on the time after Hussein and on the dreams and fears of the protagonist, Jawad, who wants to have a better life and benefit from the outcome of war and the invasion of America.
The Corpse Washer contains violence in its language, Jawad’s description of dictatorship and war on the surface. It climaxes and is directly visual in the work, which is more than when his father worked in the mghaysil, Jawad has to do because the murders and war climaxes and more and more people die that need to have the Islamic washing procedure to be prepared for their funeral.
The Corpse Washer is a novel about violence that shows the situation experienced by the growing protagonist, Jawad. In a country, which was undergoing different states of political and military situations, fear and dread was a daily reflex, because bombings and murder became routine.