THE MUSLIM AND THE JEW: A STUDY OF JOHN UPDIKE’S TERRORIST
The perception of Muslims and Islam has changed after the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11th 2001. Muslims have been projected as essential and natural-born terrorists. Thus, authors have taken this projection and reflected it into their works. John Updike, in his novel Terrorist, h...
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| description | The perception of Muslims and Islam has changed after the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11th 2001. Muslims have been projected as essential and natural-born terrorists. Thus, authors have taken this projection and reflected it into their works. John Updike, in his novel Terrorist, has done the same. He has portrayed two characters, a Muslim and a Jew. The contrast between the two characters reinforces the Islamophobic concerns of Western audience, in general, and ,American audience, in particular. Through lexical choices, narration technique, motifs and symbolism, Updike manages to further cast away the Muslim character from his society. Therefore, this research paper examines the Islamophobic, Orientalist aspects represented in Updike's Terrorist, through the comparison made between the .Egyptian-American, Muslim Ahmad, and the American, Jewish Levy. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-da27bce7b71f4ed5915b8a655e8ce79f2022-12-22T03:27:23ZengUniversitas PGRI MadiunSocial Sciences, Humanities and Education Journal2723-36262720-99462021-09-012310.25273/she.v2i3.105143235THE MUSLIM AND THE JEW: A STUDY OF JOHN UPDIKE’S TERRORISTDoha Al-Sayed0Faculty of Al-Alsun, Ain Shams University, CairoThe perception of Muslims and Islam has changed after the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11th 2001. Muslims have been projected as essential and natural-born terrorists. Thus, authors have taken this projection and reflected it into their works. John Updike, in his novel Terrorist, has done the same. He has portrayed two characters, a Muslim and a Jew. The contrast between the two characters reinforces the Islamophobic concerns of Western audience, in general, and ,American audience, in particular. Through lexical choices, narration technique, motifs and symbolism, Updike manages to further cast away the Muslim character from his society. Therefore, this research paper examines the Islamophobic, Orientalist aspects represented in Updike's Terrorist, through the comparison made between the .Egyptian-American, Muslim Ahmad, and the American, Jewish Levy.http://e-journal.unipma.ac.id/index.php/SHE/article/view/10514islamophobiafear of islamterrorismothernessstereotyping |
| spellingShingle | Doha Al-Sayed THE MUSLIM AND THE JEW: A STUDY OF JOHN UPDIKE’S TERRORIST Social Sciences, Humanities and Education Journal islamophobia fear of islam terrorism otherness stereotyping |
| title | THE MUSLIM AND THE JEW: A STUDY OF JOHN UPDIKE’S TERRORIST |
| title_full | THE MUSLIM AND THE JEW: A STUDY OF JOHN UPDIKE’S TERRORIST |
| title_fullStr | THE MUSLIM AND THE JEW: A STUDY OF JOHN UPDIKE’S TERRORIST |
| title_full_unstemmed | THE MUSLIM AND THE JEW: A STUDY OF JOHN UPDIKE’S TERRORIST |
| title_short | THE MUSLIM AND THE JEW: A STUDY OF JOHN UPDIKE’S TERRORIST |
| title_sort | muslim and the jew a study of john updike s terrorist |
| topic | islamophobia fear of islam terrorism otherness stereotyping |
| url | http://e-journal.unipma.ac.id/index.php/SHE/article/view/10514 |
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