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Saleh Fenjan, Kotaba. (1404). Necropoetics and the Art of Death in Sinan Antoon’s The Corpse Washer. , 30(2), 369-395. doi: 10.22059/jor.2025.395118.2641
Kotaba Saleh Fenjan. "Necropoetics and the Art of Death in Sinan Antoon’s The Corpse Washer". , 30, 2, 1404, 369-395. doi: 10.22059/jor.2025.395118.2641
Saleh Fenjan, Kotaba. (1404). 'Necropoetics and the Art of Death in Sinan Antoon’s The Corpse Washer', , 30(2), pp. 369-395. doi: 10.22059/jor.2025.395118.2641
Saleh Fenjan, Kotaba. Necropoetics and the Art of Death in Sinan Antoon’s The Corpse Washer. , 1404; 30(2): 369-395. doi: 10.22059/jor.2025.395118.2641

Necropoetics and the Art of Death in Sinan Antoon’s The Corpse Washer

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مقاله 2، دوره 30، شماره 2، مهر 1404، صفحه 369-395    اصل مقاله (338.37 K)
نوع مقاله: مقاله علمی پژوهشی
شناسه دیجیتال (DOI): 10.22059/jor.2025.395118.2641
نویسنده
Kotaba Saleh Fenjan*
Department of Digital Media ,Massmedia College ,University of Thi-Qar,Nassiriya City -Iraq
چکیده
The Corpse Washer (2013) by Sinan Antoon explores the intersections of resistance, memory, and mortality in post-invasion Iraq from the perspective of Jawad, an artist who has become a corpse washer. In contrast to prior research that has examined the novel through trauma theory, existentialism, and postcolonial critique, this paper introduces necropoetics, a theoretical framework that connects Achille Mbembe's necropolitics (the power to orchestrate death) with literary aesthetics, to investigate how Antoon stylizes death as both a political act and a narrative story. The novel transforms Jawad’s grim vocation into a site of artistic defiance against the erasure of Iraqi lives by emphasizing the ritualized labor of washing corpses. This study contends that necropoetics, as a lens, demonstrates how Antoon’s prose resists the commodification of war trauma, instead portraying death as a subversive, intimate practice that challenges state-sanctioned violence and historical amnesia. The Corpse Washer is not merely a chronicle of loss; it is also a literary act of preservation and dissent, as a result of this approach.
کلیدواژه‌ها
Necropoetics؛ Sinan Antoon؛ The Corpse Washer؛ war literature؛ Iraqi fiction؛ Achille Mbembe؛ death studies
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