[socrates] Reviewers Wanted to review Scholarly Article

KANPUR, India - June 14, 2015 - PRLog -- We are looking for reviewers to review a scholarly manuscript.


Manuscript title : "REPRESENTATION OF ISLAM IN POST 9/11 ENGLISH NOVELS"

Domain: English Literature; Literature; Comparative Literature

Total pages : 36

References : Page no. 32-36

Abstract:

Present research aims to study the representation of Islam in post 9/11 English novels. To this aim 31 post 9/11 English novels were divided into eight categories based on the angles from which they had looked at 9/11 event, and one novel of each category, a better received one, was chosen through cluster sampling to be studied. As the study went on two categories were deleted for not being related to the subject. Thus six novels by Updike, Del Lillo, Ferrigno, See, Halaby, and Kalfus were studied. Using representation theory and Foucault's discursive formation approach, the effort was taken to identify the latent and manifest discourses shaping and shaped by these texts as well as the characteristics attributed to Islam and Muslims. The results showed that the discourse shaping the texts (War against Terrorism) and discourses shaped by the texts (Muslims are all the same, Muslims are violent and promote violence, and Zionists are innocent) are in line with the power discourse in four of the six novels; whereas, in the remaining two novels, the approach taken toward power discourse is quite subversive. This of course signifies the presence of a multiple voice in the American society although the weaker voice is not heard as well as the loud voice.

Keywords:

Representation, Islam, Muslims, Discourse, 9/11, novel

Timeframe to review : 30 days from the date of Assignment.

Reviewers would be provided with Certificate of contribution from the Journal.

No honorarium would be paid as it is a Free and Open contribution.

Interested scholars please contact:

Dr. (Mrs) Khan Siddiqui Shazia

Editor - English language and literature

Senior Lecturer and Head-Dept. of English Mumtaz P.G College Lucknow, India

E-mail: socratesjournal@outlook.com