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At Daesh Table is a novel discussing the story of some Yezidi women captured by the extremists of Daesh when they conquered Iraq. Although those women live in their land, they are deprived of their dignity and honor under the domination of Daesh troops. The concept of non-place is introduced by the French anthropologist Marc Augé to describe places one encountered in supermodern world—full of contradictions and ambiguity. On the other hand, the notion of placelessness is introduced by Edward Relph to refer to the state in which the individual is detached from their environments because of hypermodern features such as excessive capitalism, growing consumerism, oppressive discipline within intricately intermingled locations. The paper tends to apply the two concepts of non-place and placelessnee to Zahraa Abdallah’s At Daesh Table, showing how the elements of abandoning one’s home, family and identity contribute much to the realization of such concepts in contemporary globalized world.
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