The image of women in the duality of the Iraqi novel, Hadiya Hussein, in Women of the Shrines and Hilda’s Rock

Hadiya Hussain is a contemporary writer and novelist who has produced an outstanding literary production. She has published nine novels, six short story collections, and a book on literary criticism. Some of her works have been translated into English, Italian and Serbian languages, which indicates a distinguished literary production that has won international attention. In her literary works, she was concerned with women and their various issues. Therefore, she assigned the starring role in her novels to women, and made her the central character around which events revolve, and her attention mainly focused on the effects of wars on women, and their repercussions on the personality of women. Bad at various levels, and affected all members of the Iraqi people in general, and affected women in particular, because she lost her breadwinner and support in those wars that claimed the lives of thousands of Iraqi men and young men, and this was the focus of Hussein’s gift, as she presented the image of two generations of women in her novels They are: the image of the girl who was deprived of parental care, and the image of the widow who lost her husband and became the breadwinner for her family. She excelled in drawing the woman’s personality, and she followed the two methods: analytical and representational to visualize the external and internal worlds of women, and she appeared in her developed personal novels that keep pace with events, and interact with them, and the negative or fixed personality that preserves its structure and characteristics in the novel, and never develops, as she presented models for women. We find the image of the weak, rebellious, adventurous, fearful, anxious, and troubled woman. It also depicted the suffering of women in exile, and the repercussions of alienation on her personality, and her life in general.