| Titlu: | In Their Defence: Fictional Voices of Otherness in the “September Eleven” Context |
| Autor: | Oana-Celia Ilieş Gheorghiu |
| Publicația: | Philologica Jassyensia, X (1 supl.), p. 393-402 |
| p-ISSN: | 1841-5377 |
| e-ISSN: | 2247-8353 |
| Editura: | Institutul de Filologie Română „A. Philippide” |
| Locul: | Iaşi |
| Anul: | 2014 |
| Rezumat: | Societal control mechanisms have been ascribed various denominations, such as “disciplinary societies” (Foucault), “societies of control” (Deleuze) or “ideological state apparatuses” (Althusser). With regard to Western civilisation, such mechanisms range from family to prison (as the ultimate space of confinement), with a tremendous significance of other factors, such as education, workplace and means of production, media and politics, etc. Religion is also present, but rather as a reminiscence of pre-industrial (or, perhaps, pre-Marxist) ages. In the Eastern civilisations, more precisely in the Muslim countries, on the other hand, religion still has an overwhelming impact on the development of the individuals and its effects have (re)gained global acknowledgement the hard way, with the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Could the reinterpretation of the Qur’an teachings with regard to “infidels” be an explanation for what makes young followers of Muhammad suicidal terrorists? The answer to this question may be one of the reasons that gear famous Western writers towards giving these terrorists a voice in their fiction. It goes without saying that the perspective of narrators/focalizers such as Muhammad Atta in Martin Amis’s The Last Days of Muhammad Atta (2006) and Hammad in Don De Lillo’s Falling Man (2007) can be but altered by the Westerners’ understanding and presuppositions. The present paper sets out to examine the two texts, aiming at tracing the elements of subjectivity and stereotyping in the construction of the Muslim other, but also at testing the validity of the assertion of religion as a control apparatus. |
| Cuvinte-cheie: | religion, control mechanism, terrorism in fiction, subjective construction, alterity |
| Limba: | engleză |
| Linkuri: |  pdf  html |
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