The Impact of Technological Mechanisms on Literary Imagination: The Novel Tashari as a Model
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.33806/ijaes1047Keywords:
digital, imagination, Kachachi, technological, The DispersalAbstract
This study aims to investigate how contemporary novels employ how technological mechanisms. In the 2013 novel Tashari (The Dispersal), Inaam Kachachi utilizes these mechanisms to escape from reality into a world of fantasy. To achieve its objective, this study takes a descriptive analytical approach to the characters and events and addresses some technical aspects related to textual analysis. The study finds that the characters generally suffer from marginalization, threats, and loss of security following events after 2003. These events destabilize the community due to external and internal factors: the American occupation of Iraq, the ensuing security chaos, and the control of outlaw groups. This reality prompts many people to emigrate, hoping for a decent life, only to face the cruelty of exile and the loss of their children inside Iraq. The “electronic cemetery” appears as a utopian city in which these displaced people dream of recovering their life. This cemetery becomes an alternative to their homeland after they lose hope of returning. The virtual community represents a world to which the novelist escapes from the distress and tragedies of the present to a new world far away from hers, which is full of disasters and wars.
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