Representation of Iraqi prisoners' abuse in Judith Thompson's palace of the end: a politico-cultural perspective

Abstract

Submitted: 18 April 2020 Accepted: 09 May 2020 The paper is a study in the representation of the systematic abuse inflicted by the American Female Soldier (being an image of American militarism) upon the Iraqi prisoners in the Abu Ghraib jail. The American misconducts exercised are based on political and cultural grounds: it is dramatically evident that the American Female Soldier has prejudicially transformed the stage into a battleground, whereon, post colonially, the Iraqi prisoners are viciously addressed by demeaning terms.