ملامح الهوية في رواية سيدات زحل: رواية سيرة ناس ومدينة

Abstract EN

The novel « the women of Saturne», a biography of people and a city by the Iraqi writer Lotfiya al-Dulaimi is characterised by its ability to monitor social, economic and political transformations, and by its focus on identity discourse of one of most fundamental issues this manifests through her view of the split self, the issue of belonging, and the sectarian and ethnic diversity that flared up with the American occupation of Baghdad in 2003.

it also monitors the voices, visions and perception, in that it became a tool of exposure and disclosure, as well as it depicts the moments of the self-falling into the trap of the other, as it deals with the bloody rivalries resulting from despersion of relations, and the sectarian violence leading to division and diaspora.