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Journal Article
Challenging the Stereotype of the Violent Muslim/Arab in a Sample of Three American Modern Novels
2025
Overview
The September 11 attacks (also referred to as 9/11) marked a change observed in the world's focus on Islam and Arabs/Middle Easterners specifically. Post 9/11 fiction is highly characterized by Orientalist stereotyping. Islam is claimed to nurture terrorism, and promote bloodshed, and Arabs/Middle Eastern ersare called the\" terrorists\" who have been behind the attacks. As a result, a powerful massive and aggressive literary attack has been directed towards contemporary Arab and Muslim societies for their \"violence.\" In the light of Edward Said's Orientalism (1978), this article seeks to discuss three post 9/11 American literary works and highlight their writers' positive portrayal of the main Arab/Muslim characters, a portrayal which dismantles the strongly established stereotype of violence that post 9/11 fiction emphatically mirrors. These works are Lorrie Moore's A Gate at the Stairs (2009), Claire Messud's The Woman Upstairs (2013) and Lorraine Adams Harbor (2004). By exploiting these writers' portrayal of the protagonists of the novels and by referring to key novels in post 9/11 fiction which offer key features of the stereotype of violence, we aim at demonstrating that Lorrie Moore's A Gate at the stairs, Claire Messud's The Woman Upstairs and Lorraine Adams' Harbor challenge the stereotype of violent Arabs/Muslims spread in the aftermath of 9/11.
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جامعة قاصدي مرباح - ورقلة
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