Titre : |
Representations of Islam, Terrorism, and Religious Extremism: Cosmopolitan Identity in Muslim Anglophone Novel |
Type de document : |
texte imprimé |
Auteurs : |
Fateh BOUNAR, Auteur |
Editeur : |
Tlemcen : University Aboubakr Belkaid |
Année de publication : |
2019 |
Importance : |
259 p. |
Format : |
21/27 cm. |
Langues : |
Anglais (eng) |
Mots-clés : |
Ambivalence, Anthony Appiah, Cross-cultural dialogue, Discourse, Identity, Islam, Misrepresentation, Orientalism,
Post-colonialism, Religious Extremism, Rooted Cosmopolitanism, Terrorism, 9/11 |
Résumé : |
In Orientalism, Edward Said argues amply that the West has popularised a rather distorted image about Islam through a pseudoscientific study of the East, subjecting it in the process to a discourse of power, which colours most of the perceptions that the
West has had about Islam. Recently, the attacks on the Twin Towers in New York have, in their wake, revived and reinforced
many extant, Orientalist myths in a new, perhaps more overwhelming, wave of misrepresentation targeting Islam. In the realm of
literature, canonical writers like John Updike and Don DeLillo published works that do but reiterate the media Neo-orientalist
discourse, which paints Islam as a religion mired in outmoded practices and incapable of cross-cultural dialogue in the age of
Globalisation. In this thesis, however, it is argued that out of the post-9/11 frenzy emerges a counter discourse, which tries to
correct these misconceptions and myths. In order to analyse this counter discourse, the three novels analysed here are therefore
read through the lens of Anthony Appiah’s philosophy of Rooted Cosmopolitanism. The three novels promote narratives of crosscultural dialogue in that the main Muslim characters, to evoke Appiah’s cosmopolitanism, fulfil fully their “moral oughts,” the
moral obligations that bind them to their fellow human-beings who do not belong to their local culture. |
Representations of Islam, Terrorism, and Religious Extremism: Cosmopolitan Identity in Muslim Anglophone Novel [texte imprimé] / Fateh BOUNAR, Auteur . - Tlemcen : University Aboubakr Belkaid, 2019 . - 259 p. ; 21/27 cm. Langues : Anglais ( eng)
Mots-clés : |
Ambivalence, Anthony Appiah, Cross-cultural dialogue, Discourse, Identity, Islam, Misrepresentation, Orientalism,
Post-colonialism, Religious Extremism, Rooted Cosmopolitanism, Terrorism, 9/11 |
Résumé : |
In Orientalism, Edward Said argues amply that the West has popularised a rather distorted image about Islam through a pseudoscientific study of the East, subjecting it in the process to a discourse of power, which colours most of the perceptions that the
West has had about Islam. Recently, the attacks on the Twin Towers in New York have, in their wake, revived and reinforced
many extant, Orientalist myths in a new, perhaps more overwhelming, wave of misrepresentation targeting Islam. In the realm of
literature, canonical writers like John Updike and Don DeLillo published works that do but reiterate the media Neo-orientalist
discourse, which paints Islam as a religion mired in outmoded practices and incapable of cross-cultural dialogue in the age of
Globalisation. In this thesis, however, it is argued that out of the post-9/11 frenzy emerges a counter discourse, which tries to
correct these misconceptions and myths. In order to analyse this counter discourse, the three novels analysed here are therefore
read through the lens of Anthony Appiah’s philosophy of Rooted Cosmopolitanism. The three novels promote narratives of crosscultural dialogue in that the main Muslim characters, to evoke Appiah’s cosmopolitanism, fulfil fully their “moral oughts,” the
moral obligations that bind them to their fellow human-beings who do not belong to their local culture. |
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