Homeland Alienation after the American War of 2003 in Iraqi’s Selected Novels

        The researcher Abdul Salim Hussam mentioned in his research “Theme Of Alienation In Modern Literature” that alienation can be defined as the basic form of rootlessness, which forms the subject of many psychological, sociological, literary and philosophical studies. It’s a major theme of human condition in the contemporary epoch. It is only natural that a pervasive phenomenon like alienation should leave such an indelible impact upon the contemporary literature. Alienation emerges as natural consequence of existential predicament both in intrinsic and extrinsic terms. The theme of alienation has been variously dealt with persistently and unflinchingly in modern literature. The alienated protagonist is a recurrent figure in much of the twentieth century American and European fiction. Alienation in its various forms has been dealt with in the existentialistic literature. Owing to its historical and socio-cultural reasons, the Indo-English literature also, could not remain unaffected by it. Alienation is the result of loss of identity. The dispossessed personality's search for identity is a common place theme in modern fiction. Man fails to perceive today the very purpose behind life and the relevance of his existence in a hostile world. Edmund Fuller remarks that in our age “man suffers not only from war, persecution, famine and ruin, but from inner problems a conviction of isolation, randomness, meaninglessness in his way of existence ". (Hussam 67).