Benedict's Wolf Season: A Saidian Study of Iraqi Refugees of post 2003

Abstract

Benedict's Wolf Season (2017) is a prominent literary work that shows the state of suffering of refugees and their inability to integrate into the new county, the host county. Using Said's Orientalism, this paper examines the state of those people, emphasizing his concept of the “other" that is not accepted by the native people. It seeks to investigate Said's view of the Western representation of the East as inferior, and of those coming from it to live in Western society as being a danger regardless of the reasons for their migration. This is done through an analysis of Benedict’s novel, Wolf Season, which presents the Iraqi migration experience from a Western point of view, employing societal representations and stereotypes to convey a comprehensive portrait of this experience. It concludes that the experience of Iraqi refugees in the West is full of non-belonging due to societal rejection, on the part of host countries, and isolation they face as a result of ethnic views.