Touching Death, Washing Violence, and Maneuvering Trauma in Sinan Antoon’s The Corpse Washer (2013)

The prolonged trauma experience still dominates Iraqi narratives and their articulation of self and place in a country ravaged by war. Hence, literature through such works provides them with an indispensable way of giving voice to their wounds and reclaiming the humanity that has been traumatized by...

The International Journal of Literary Humanities

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