The intelligentsia and the woman in Ali Bader's novels

Abstract EN

This study examines the relationship between the intellectual and the woman as depicted in several selected novels by the Iraqi novelist, Ali Bader.

Ali Bader's novels are regarded as literary documents closely related to the middle class in the Iraqi society.

They represent a re-reading of the modern history of Iraq, particularly the cultural aspects from a narrative perspective, discussing numerous important issues and visions on the political, social and cultural history represented by the narrative intelligentsia.

Therefore, the researcher found the analytical approach to be the most proper critical method for examining Ali Bader's works.

It was found that the character of the woman seeks female domination, and that the intellectual must comply and succumb contrary to the familiar traditions in eastern societies which marginalize women economically and constantly belittle her achievements.

Therefore, several feminine characters in Bader's novels are shown to be of low education dominated by erotic dimensions; yet, a woman is entitled to play a role that enables her to dominate.

Thus, the intellectual becomes subjected to her briskness.

However, a woman is still a negative entity in the presence of the predominant mass pattern of men, but positive in the ence of it.