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- Title
The Agony of the Iraq Nation: On Virtual Graveyard and Its Metaphors in Tashari.
- Authors
Ren Hongzhi
- Abstract
Contrary to the stereotyped aesthetic reference of cemetery to the image of gloominess and desolation, the virtual graveyard in Inaam Kachachi's Tashari creates a virtual space for both the dead and the living through the interlacing of sound and sense made possible by technological means, representing a lively imagination of Paradise and a Messianic Perspective on life. This paper intends to study the multiple media functions and metaphorical characteristics of the virtual graveyard, and analyze how presents objective and vivid historical scenes by private visionary world, and how reflects the fractured and broken reality with the perspective function of the mirror surface. The paper also re-examines the ethical warnings behind technological therapy of wound-healing by focusing on the graveyard's healing efficacy which continues to give way to worship values. The virtual graveyard provides readers with liminal space between history and the present, memory and imagination, and also presents a new perspective and implies great significance for investigating in the shaping of the historical memory of the Iraqi nation, and reflecting on the huge gaps in contemporary Arab society.
- Subjects
IRAQ; IMAGINATION; TRIZ theory; ARABS; CEMETERIES; COLLECTIVE memory; CHARACTERISTIC functions; MODERN society
- Publication
Foreign Language & Literature Research, 2023, Vol 9, Issue 4, p20
- ISSN
1003-6822
- Publication type
Article