The Other Side of War: The Intergenerational Trauma in Ali Al-Zaidi's Fourth Generation.
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https://doi.org/10.31185/bsj.Vol22.Iss43.1496Keywords:
human body dismemberment, intergenerational trauma theory, war and oppressive dictatorshipsAbstract
Wars and oppressive dictatorships are curses that have devastated human society. They have provided the future of humanity in general and children in particular with nothing but a turbulent world of chaos in which moral, religious, and social values have vanished, causing them to be homeless and live a miserable life of poverty. Ali Abdulnebi Al Zaidi's play Fourth Generation (1997) is a notable drama portraying the dictatorships produced by politics that made Iraq a war zone. The bitter reality of Iraq during these wars inspired Al Zaidi to document the catastrophes, deaths, and fears that violated human and children's rights to live in dignity through the events of the play. Fourth Generation is a depiction of violent and brutal actions that have taken place in Iraqi society as a result of a sequence of multiple wars in Iraq since the 1980s. This paper tackles the theme of human body dismemberment as a solution to escape from the negative effects of war and its consequences through the intergenerational trauma theory.
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