Год выпуска: 2011 Автор: Amal Sayyid Издательство: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Страниц: 128 ISBN: 9783846598641
Описание
In the post- 9/11 world, where ideological conflicts form the very basis of all geopolitical developments, the domain of literature too cannot be considered insulated from ideological concerns. As a matter of fact, in the aftermath of 9/11 a burgeoning literature has emerged from the East and the West offering varying perspectives on the themes of fundamentalism, terrorism, American consumer capitalism and clash of civilizations according to the ideological and political leanings of the authors. The current study seeks to compare and contrast the ideological nature of the representations of post 9/11, American capitalism and Islamic terrorism in the novels of John Updike and Mohsin Hamid, two authors of vastly differing civilizational backgrounds. This study further seeks to combine an investigation of the aesthetic mores of a literary work with a study of its ideological connotations. For this purpose the author has employed the model of symptomatic reading given by Althusser and...
