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dc.contributor.advisorRiss, Arthuren_US
dc.contributor.advisorYoung, Stephenieen_US
dc.contributor.authorSullivan, Rob
dc.creatorSullivan, Roben_US
dc.date2021-11-24T14:05:37.000en_US
dc.date.accessioned2021-11-29T11:28:14Z
dc.date.available2021-11-29T11:28:14Z
dc.date.issued2014-05-01en_US
dc.date.submitted2015-04-10T08:06:51-07:00en_US
dc.identifiergraduate_theses/8en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13013/568en_US
dc.description.abstractIn the years after 9/11, a number of novels appeared that purported to examine the perspectives of both Islamic fundamentalist terrorists and American Muslims . While ostensibly giving their American audiences an insight into an Islamic perspective, what these novels are actually unconsciously doing is using their Muslim characters to create a new sense of American identity in the post-9/11world where older conceptions of American identity have been disrupted by the violent intrusion of an alien presence . Drawing upon the work of Edward Said and Toni Morrison, this thesis will examine the ways John Updike's Terrorist, Amy Waldman's, The Submission, and Don DeliIIo's Falling Man, construct a Muslim Other in order to create an American identity. The presence of the Muslims in these novels serves as an occasion for the Americans to explore their new identities after 9/11,where American exceptionalism and such American qualities once constructed as intrinsic and essential as freedom, inviolability, and tolerance are called into questionen_US
dc.titleTerrorizing Islam: Building American Identity in the 9/11 Novelen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.legacy.embargo2015-04-10T00:00:00-07:00en_US
dc.legacy.pubstatuspublisheden_US
dc.description.departmentEnglishen_US
dc.date.displayMay 2014en_US
dc.type.degreeMaster of Arts (MA)en_US
dc.legacy.pubtitleGraduate Thesesen_US
dc.legacy.identifierhttps://digitalcommons.salemstate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1007&context=graduate_theses&unstamped=1en_US
dc.legacy.identifieritemhttps://digitalcommons.salemstate.edu/graduate_theses/8en_US
dc.legacy.identifierfilehttps://digitalcommons.salemstate.edu/context/graduate_theses/article/1007/type/native/viewcontenten_US
dc.subject.keywordIslamen_US
dc.subject.keywordMuslimen_US
dc.subject.keywordterrorismen_US
dc.subject.keywordidentityen_US
dc.subject.keywordAmericaen_US
dc.subject.keyword9/11en_US


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