The tales of the war : reporting from the battlefield in Iraq

الملخص EN

Many fictional and non-fictional works appeared after 2003 to explore various dimensions to the American military adventure in Iraq.

Some of these works were written from first-hand knowledge by people who were embroiled in this warfare.

Others were contributed by observers who find themselves in earnest to comment on and evaluate what was happening.

The study first examines the writings that prospered in the wake of the American involvement in Iraq in 2003.

War narratives, penned by American writers who bore witness to the war are basically investigated.

The light is turned on publications between 2003 and 2008 during the war's ugliest phase.

The themes prevalent in these narratives are inspected and the literary strategies and narrative modes adopted are discussed.

The book selected for the study, Generation Kill (2004) by Evan Wright, hosts an array of subject matters and perspectives.

It also incorporates a spacious continuum of themes ranging from bitterness, suffering and frustration to disillusionment and indifference.

In short, regardless of the ideological background of the selected work, it exposes an impulse to be realistic, objective, pragmatic and unromantic even if it occasionally fails to be so.