An Overview of American War in Iraq and Postcolonial Ecocritical Approach in Turner's and Mikhail's Works

Abstract

paper makes a postcolonial ecocritical comparison between Brian Turner's and Dunya Mikhail's books,Here, Bullet, Phantom Noise, Iraqi Nights, A Diary of a Wave outside the Sea, In Her feminine Sign and War Works after the 2003 American War in Iraq. Their works emphasize the linkage between the ecological decay and the social decadence of the Iraqi society. Both Turner and Mikhail confirm the interrelatedness between the ecological destruction and the eradication of Iraqis' culture and identity. They present the truthful images of the imperial actions that have led to the environmental deterioration in Iraq in many of their poems, such as Caravan, The Hurt Locker, The Mutanabii Street Bombing, Kirkuk Oilfield, 1927, The Baghdad Zoo, The War Works Hard, Innana, America, An Urgent Call and many others.