Islam and Modernity: A Study of John Updike's Terrorist (2006)
Islam and Modernity: A Study of John Updike's Terrorist (2006)

hossein Pirnajmuddin; Maryam Salehnia

Volume 31, Issue 2 , July 2012, , Pages 171-186

https://doi.org/10.22099/jtls.2012.504

Abstract
  The images of Muslims in media, literature and politics have been mostly black and white portrayals of a people alien to modernity, technology, civilization and progress. Since the ...  Read More
Texts and Politics: Postcolonial Revaluations of two British Classics
Texts and Politics: Postcolonial Revaluations of two British Classics

Rahim Moosavinia

Volume 30, Issue 3 , October 2011, , Pages 67-82

https://doi.org/10.22099/jtls.2012.378

Abstract
  The major argument of this essay is that Kipling treats the colonial subject as the "other," and Forster proves to be almost as pro-Empire as writers like Kipling. Nevertheless, A Passage ...  Read More
Postmodern Orientalized Terrorism: Don DeLillo’s The Names
Postmodern Orientalized Terrorism: Don DeLillo’s The Names

hossein Pirnajmuddin; Abbas Ali Borhan

Volume 30, Issue 2 , July 2011, , Pages 57-84

https://doi.org/10.22099/jtls.2012.384

Abstract
  The terrorism of obscurantism is one of the hallmarks of Don DeLillo’s The Names (1982), distinguishing it as one of the "difficult writings" in his canon. Terrorism, however, ...  Read More