الأنساق المضمرة لسلطة المقدس في خماسية شمران الياسري

Abstract

Shamran al-Yasiri’s quintet (Alzenad, Balabush Dunya, Ghannam Al-Sheikh, Flous Hamid, Kadeat Hamza Al-Khalaf) deals with the life of the Iraqi countryside in a village, starting from the end of the Ottoman rule and the entry of the British occupation to the Baathists’ control of authority in 1968, where the community of the novel is exposed to many existential challenges Its focus is the struggle over land and production, the result of which is the exploitation, oppression and impoverishment of the farmer. In this hidden war sometimes and declared at other times, all material and moral weapons are used, including the use of the sacred, as its implicit systems are used to establish values and exclude other, and the study examines the manifestations of these systems and refers to method of employing it.