Female Voices in the Aftermath of the Iraqi War in Helen Benedict’s Wolf Season
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https://doi.org/10.31185/wjfh.Vol20.Iss3.547Keywords:
: Iraq War, Collective trauma, Refugee, Wolf Season, VeteranAbstract
Female American novelists have written novels on the Iraq War that express a perspective rarely encountered in modern war literature. Helen Benedict is one of the female novelists who used fiction to portray the Iraq War, particularly via the viewpoints of female main characters, to convey women's issues and the pain experienced by humanity. Benedict, a journalist, has extensively documented the impact of war on female troops in Iraq. In her works of fiction, she specifically focuses on the psychological and physical aftermath that war imposes on women. The author's work elucidates that while the war may have concluded as a historical event, its repercussions persist for individuals who served as troops in Iraq or experienced the loss of loved ones, whether they were in Iraq or back home in the United States of America.
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