Iraqi Woman in an Ambience of War: A Post-Orientalist Study of A Strange Bird on our Roof

Abstract

Iraqi woman image within the framework of wicked 2003 war on Iraq is perceived to be as ‘angel in the house’ or a obsequious victim who is in need of emancipation. George Bush and his wife Lauria, on a motley of formal speeches in the wake of  the invasion and American media, have ubiquitously ingrained this modus operandi of the docile cliché in the consciousness of American denizens. However, the vindication, to liberate Iraqi people; particularly women, which is utilized to wage war on Iraq has gone awry. This rhetoric of liberation fall short of the expectations of Iraqi people and the world. In fact, Iraqi women have enduringly suffered  corollaries of the invasion. However, still the Iraqi woman  keep her head high and never to yield to this lumpy miasma as they keep confronting quotidian life quandaries with hard-hitting resilience. In this context, the magnum opus A Strange Bird on our Roof is to be censoriously analyzed within the framework of Post-Orientalism.  Post-Orientalism is a literary theory which expounds that Middle Eastern people are not subalternists in the first place.  The paper is falls into an introduction, two sections and a conclusion. The introduction will acquaint readers with general overview of the hegemonic conception of the status of the Iraqi woman which is inaugurated in the wake of 2003 wicked war. Section two, will probe into the meaning of Post-Orientalism. Section three, utilizing the aforementioned theory will delve into the analysis of the A Strange Bird on our Roof. The ultimatum, which is the conclusion will sums up the whole findings of the study.