The Reification Of Islam In Don Delillo’s Falling Man

Résumé: Since the advent of the cold war, American popular culture, media, and literature portray Arabs and Muslims as dangerous creatures and terrorists. For a cohort of critics, the American novel is a glaring example of what might be called the one-sided representation of Islam and Muslims. Post 9/11 American novel has taken the incidents seriously to react against terrorism and Islam. From 9/11’s ashes, Don DeLillo’s Falling Man makes its readers live the traumatic events and feeds on the issue of terrorism to bring back the old cultural antagonism between West and East, or ‘Self’ and ‘Other’. Within this context, this article examines the subjective representation of Islam in DeLillo’s novel. Relying on the critical assumptions of Edward Said, Ian Almond, and Michel Foucault, this scrutiny aims to show that postmodernist American fiction does not respond to the principle of refraction and the flexibility of meaning

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