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Surveillance And Torture: A Foucauldian Reading In Mahmoud Saeed’s Saddam City And Sinan Antoon’s Ijaam
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Surveillance And Torture: A Foucauldian Reading In Mahmoud Saeed’s Saddam City And Sinan Antoon’s Ijaam
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Publisher: International Journal Of Linguistics, Literature And Trans..
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Abstract
This article discusses the portrayal of surveillance and torture during Saddam Hussein’s era, as reflected in Sinan Antoon’s novel Ijaam (2004) and Mahmoud Saeed’s Saddam City (2004). Surveillance is one of Michel Foucault’s strategies of power. The nature of surveillance means that the authority monitors the individuals without their knowledge. It is adopted as a mean of control and a method of domination throughout Saddam’s regime. Antoon described how the citizens were forced to follow the authority commands because they know that the government always watch their moves. In Saddam City (2004), Mahmoud Saeed also portrays the difficult circumstances which the Iraqi society experienced for more three decades under constant censorship by the Baath Party- Saddam’s ruling political party. Torture in prison, on the other hand, is also represented through the main characters of Antoon and Saeed texts. Theoretically, the subjec...
