The aim of this essay is to compare the reactions to the 2001 attack to the Twin Towers as they are related and reflected upon in Western and non-Western fiction. We start from the analysis of a novel by a Pakistani author, Mohsin Hamid, "The Reluctant Fundamentalist". Then, we compare the genesis of a terrorist, as it is depicted by the American author John Updike in "Terrorist", and the creation of a terrorist by the media, which is the main subject of "The Unknown Terrorist" by the Australian 2014 Man Booker Prize Winner Richard Flanagan.

"And then I smiled": Recent Postcolonial Fiction and the War on Terror

ALBERTAZZI, SILVIA
2016

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The aim of this essay is to compare the reactions to the 2001 attack to the Twin Towers as they are related and reflected upon in Western and non-Western fiction. We start from the analysis of a novel by a Pakistani author, Mohsin Hamid, "The Reluctant Fundamentalist". Then, we compare the genesis of a terrorist, as it is depicted by the American author John Updike in "Terrorist", and the creation of a terrorist by the media, which is the main subject of "The Unknown Terrorist" by the Australian 2014 Man Booker Prize Winner Richard Flanagan.
2016
Albertazzi, Silvia
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