000117637 001__ 117637 000117637 005__ 20230914083553.0 000117637 0248_ $$2sideral$$a128614 000117637 0247_ $$2doi$$a10.35360/njes.741 000117637 037__ $$aART-2022-128614 000117637 041__ $$aeng 000117637 100__ $$0(orcid)0000-0001-5449-6556$$aYebra, José M.$$uUniversidad de Zaragoza 000117637 245__ $$aNecropolitics in Sinan Antoon’s The Corpse Washer 000117637 260__ $$c2022 000117637 5060_ $$aAccess copy available to the general public$$fUnrestricted 000117637 5203_ $$aSinan Antoon’s The Corpse Washer (2013) constitutes an account of post-war Iraq narrated by an Iraqi youth and authored by an Iraqi émigré. It is thus a valuable alternative to American fiction on the conflict and its aftermath. From this premise, this article explores how the myth of the trauma hero, which has whitewashed the American invasion in redemptive terms, is here replaced by a more nuanced discourse. Mbembe’s necropolitics—i.e. the “subjugation of life to the power of death” (2003: 39)—helps explain the story of Jawad, the corpse washer of the title, and of Iraq as one of dehumanization, wounding and spatialization inflicted by Western supremacy and alleged ‘rationality.’ The novel challenges Western necropolitics in two main ways: Iraqi stereotypes are questioned, especially their identification with terrorism and martyrdom. On the other hand, surrealism and gothic elements help the protagonist and his country to sublimate the trauma derived from American neocolonial politics. 000117637 536__ $$9info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA/H03-20R$$9info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO-FEDER/FFI2017-84258-P 000117637 540__ $$9info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess$$aby$$uhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ 000117637 592__ $$a0.169$$b2022 000117637 593__ $$aLiterature and Literary Theory$$c2022$$dQ1 000117637 593__ $$aLinguistics and Language$$c2022$$dQ2 000117637 594__ $$a0.5$$b2022 000117637 655_4 $$ainfo:eu-repo/semantics/article$$vinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 000117637 700__ $$aRevilla Carrasco, Alfonso$$uUniversidad de Zaragoza 000117637 7102_ $$13004$$2345$$aUniversidad de Zaragoza$$bDpto. Filolog.Inglesa y Alema.$$cÁrea Filología Inglesa 000117637 7102_ $$13001$$2193$$aUniversidad de Zaragoza$$bDpto. Expres.Music.Plást.Corp.$$cÁrea Didáctica Expr.Plástica 000117637 773__ $$g21, 1 (2022), 96-114$$tNJES : Nordic journal of English studies$$x1502-7694 000117637 85641 $$uhttps://njes-journal.com/articles/abstract/741/$$zTexto completo de la revista 000117637 8564_ $$s494408$$uhttps://zaguan.unizar.es/record/117637/files/texto_completo.pdf$$yVersión publicada 000117637 8564_ $$s1635116$$uhttps://zaguan.unizar.es/record/117637/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon$$xicon$$yVersión publicada 000117637 909CO $$ooai:zaguan.unizar.es:117637$$particulos$$pdriver 000117637 951__ $$a2023-09-13-13:31:29 000117637 980__ $$aARTICLE