@article{Boubakri_2014, title={The representation of the Arabic and Islamic Identity in the 9/11 novel Lorraine Adams’s Harbor as a case study}, volume={5}, url={https://journal.uokufa.edu.iq/index.php/Kufa_Review/article/view/4502}, abstractNote={<p>The 9/11 attacks have affected the representation<br />of the Arabic and Islamic identity and a great<br />deal of research has been interested in the study<br />of this representation. Most of this research has<br />been directed to the study of the 9/11 political<br />discourse showing that this discourse embeds<br />misrepresentations of Arabs and Muslims through<br />powerful rhetorical features. The present paper<br />finds it interesting to study the representation of the<br />Arabic and Islamic identity in literature rather than<br />in politics, and in order to remain within the context<br />of the 9/11 attacks and the issue of terrorism, it<br />chooses to analyze one of the 9/11 novels, namely<br />Lorraine Adams’ (2004) Harbor. A critical discourse<br />analysis following Fairclough’s (2001) analytical<br />procedure is applied to understand the ideological<br />dominant discourse through the identification of the<br />rhetorical devices on which this literary discourse<br />is based.It is concluded that Harbor is based on a<br />shocking sequencing of its backstory in a way that<br />the reader is preoccupied with the horrifying story<br />that he experiences while a lot of misrepresentations are backgrounded within the<br />discourse. In fact, this critical<br />evaluative reading applied to<br />the novel brings to the fore what<br />is backgrounded in order to<br />denounce the misrepresentation<br />of the Arabic and Islamic identity.</p>}, number={3}, journal={Kufa Review (Discontinued)}, author={Boubakri, Awatef}, year={2014}, month={May} }