Violence and intertextuality the resurrection of Frankenstein in Saadawi's Frankenstein in Baghdad
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2016
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university of Oum-El-Bouaghi
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Fiction is not just a text that can be studied, but it is a mirror that reflects the whole society its economic prosperity, its cultural advancements and even its ills. Due to the oppression people witnessed during the American intervention, Iraqi writers adopted the theme of violence. In an attempt to support the abuse his society endures, Saadawi uses 'intertextuality'. This dissertation will find out the relationship between intertextuality and violence in the work of the Iraqi writer Ahmed Saadawi Frankenstein in Baghdad (2013). This text has been purposely chosen because it expresses the way the linguistic aspect, intertextuality, has served the postmodern thematic concern, violence. This study aims to investigate the national commitment of the writers whose countries are under oppression. In order to achieve the preceding highlighted points, this thesis will be divided into three chapters. The work will be introduced by a theoretical part that treats both violence and intertextuality within the postmodern context. The second chapter will offer a general view about the support of the translated source proximate type of intertextuality to violence via the borrowing of the English character from the English novel Shelley's Frankenstein. The last one will shed light on the other types of intertextuality as well as the other postmodern techniques which strengthen the threat and abuse in the Iraqi society. Finally, this dissertation attends to show the way writers as an intellectual class, through their depiction, try to change what could not be changed by the other classes.
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Novel : Ahmed Saadawi : Frankenstein : (Baghdad)