Ahmed Saadawi’s Frankenstein in Baghdad in the Time of the Covid-19

A Postmodern Reading

Bibliographic Data

ID21807015
AuthorsNasaybah Walid Awajan (0000-0002-5818-4813, corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume14
Issue4
Pages1258-1263
Publication date2024-04-29
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueTheory and Practice in Language Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1799-2591 • E-ISSN: 2053-0692
PublisherAcademy Publication (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.17507/tpls.1404.33
OpenAlexW4396496325
LanguageEN
References cited4

The study explores how Ahmed Saadawi’s novel, Frankenstein in Baghdad (2013) could be related to the time of COVID-19 through a postmodern lens focusing on post-war issues. The study aims at exploring Saadawi’s characters who are used by the writer to represent post-war issues in Iraq. The characters suffer from a kind of hallucination and depression as seen in both their behavior and their routine, everyday lives. They show how their life has no meaning and aim. All this is symbolized by the monster which itself is only the creation of the minds of these depressed people. The study shows how people, who are suffering from postwar issues can also resemble people suffering through the COVID-19 pandemic. The hallucinations of Saadawi’s characters resemble those of real-life people during the COVID-19 pandemic. Thus, the paper tries to explore how Saadawi’s characters resemble humanity in the time of COVID-19. In general, little research has been conducted on the postwar issues represented in Saadawi’s novel, Frankenstein in Baghdad, and how the characters themselves in the novel could represent humanity in post-pandemic times. The paper’s contribution is to fill the gaps of the previously made points

Art · Linguistics · Literature · Postmodernism · Sociology · Contemporary Literature and Criticism · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis · Medicine · Misinformation and Its Impacts · Philosophy

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