Representations of Value Conflict in Iraqi Novel: A Reading of Novel (The Beautiful) By Waarid Bader Al-Salem

After the ill-fated winds of change blew in 2003, the Iraqi cultural scene witnessed an opening and perhaps a breakdown at all religious, social, and political levels, and new values and customs emerged that entered into conflict with fixed values and customs, as the political change was followed by serious efforts to globalize a certain model of values, aimed at stereotyping the Iraqi self and shaping it according to an ideological line drawn by Western policies seeking to globalize its values and ideas. Based on the above, this study seeks to monitor the value conflicts that exist on the Iraqi scene, especially those that have taken on a religious and social character and contributed in one way or another to the dismantling of the societal structure, the fragmentation and dispossession of the Iraqi self, and the dissolution of national identity. There is what can be called "Americanization", a term commonly used in the field of cultural studies, and refers to the ideological line that seeks to mold peoples and societies in a mold designed by American policy in accordance with its interests and goals.