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MARKETING ISLAMOPHOBIA A POSTCOLONIAL ANALYSIS OF THE JOHN UPDIKES TERRORIST 2006

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http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gsr.2022(VII-I).21      10.31703/gsr.2022(VII-I).21      Published : Mar 2022

Marketing Islamophobia: A Post-Colonial Analysis of the John Updike’s Terrorist (2006)

Abstract

    Many people's opinions of Muslims and Islam have evolved since the World Trade Center attacks on September 11, 2001. Muslims and Islam have been blamed for helping to breed terrorists. This prediction has thus been included in the literature. The same thing is done by John Updike in his book Terrorist. He has played Jews and Muslims. The disparity between the two identities fuels Western viewers' and Americans' fears about Islam. Updike masterfully alienates his Muslim protagonist from his community by utilising language, narrative style, concepts, and symbols. To analyse the Islamophobic and Orientalist elements in Updike's Terrorist, this study analyses and contrasts the two. American Jews and Muslims from Egypt are two very different populations.

    Islamophobia, Terrorism, Fear of Islam, Stereotyping, Otherness

    (1) Shahbaz Khalid
    Lecturer, Department of English, Riphah International University, Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan.
    (2) Sarfraz
    Lecturer, Department of English, Ummah International College, Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan.
    (3) Umar Shafiq
    Lecturer, Aspire Group of College, Samundri, Punjab, Pakistan.
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Cite this article

APA

    APA : Khalid, S., Sarfraz., & Shafiq, U. (2022). Marketing Islamophobia: A Post-Colonial Analysis of the John Updike’s Terrorist (2006). Global Sociological Review, VII(I), 210-219. https://doi.org/10.31703/gsr.2022(VII-I).21

CHICAGO

    CHICAGO : Khalid, Shahbaz, Sarfraz, and Umar Shafiq. 2022. "Marketing Islamophobia: A Post-Colonial Analysis of the John Updike’s Terrorist (2006)." Global Sociological Review, VII (I): 210-219 doi: 10.31703/gsr.2022(VII-I).21

HARVARD

    HARVARD : KHALID, S., SARFRAZ. & SHAFIQ, U. 2022. Marketing Islamophobia: A Post-Colonial Analysis of the John Updike’s Terrorist (2006). Global Sociological Review, VII, 210-219.

MHRA

    MHRA : Khalid, Shahbaz, Sarfraz, and Umar Shafiq. 2022. "Marketing Islamophobia: A Post-Colonial Analysis of the John Updike’s Terrorist (2006)." Global Sociological Review, VII: 210-219

MLA

    MLA : Khalid, Shahbaz, Sarfraz, and Umar Shafiq. "Marketing Islamophobia: A Post-Colonial Analysis of the John Updike’s Terrorist (2006)." Global Sociological Review, VII.I (2022): 210-219 Print.

OXFORD

    OXFORD : Khalid, Shahbaz, Sarfraz, , and Shafiq, Umar (2022), "Marketing Islamophobia: A Post-Colonial Analysis of the John Updike’s Terrorist (2006)", Global Sociological Review, VII (I), 210-219

TURABIAN

    TURABIAN : Khalid, Shahbaz, Sarfraz, and Umar Shafiq. "Marketing Islamophobia: A Post-Colonial Analysis of the John Updike’s Terrorist (2006)." Global Sociological Review VII, no. I (2022): 210-219. https://doi.org/10.31703/gsr.2022(VII-I).21