Identity Conflict in the Iraqi Novel: The Novel of "The American Granddaughter" as an Exemplar

Abstract

     This study is formed during the course of our work in monitoring the manifestations of the fragmentation of identity in its Iraqi space through investigating the qualitative characteristics of literary discourse, which are suitable to constitute a technical phenomenon.The study yielded the following results:

1- Novel writing possessed in its direct contents a political vision of the events, dealing with the position of women within the political movement that has afflicted the Iraqi person

2-The schism of the feminist narrative personality between reality and the mirror in her life and self-performance, as the feminist narrative text stopped to monitor the manifestations of the fragmentation of the national identity, and presented the most important changes that affected the identity as a result of the conditions of war, political and sectarian conflicts, terrorism and exile.

4-The performances of the body in the narrative text have varied between action and response. The body in feminist writing is D. My image in the form that splits into various meanings between subjective and objective according to the social space itself.3-The feminist narrative text has its poeticism in terms of drawing epithets with Iraqi anthropological and popular references by which the self-reinforced its longing and nostalgia to the past by employing legacies, traditions and foods represented by the characteristics of the place and part of its cultural geography.