Since the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001, a vast discourse on contemporary terrorism has emerged within 'Western' media. This thesis analyzes the discourse of contemporary terrorism, and highlights how the postcolonialist critique of Orientalism pioneered by Edward Said is still relevant within the discourse. This is accomplished by analyzing books that have been published post-9/11 and which have been reviewed in the journal Foreign Affairs. A primary goal of this thesis is to facilitate the de-reification of the socially constructed concepts of both 'the East' and 'the West' which currently dominate representations within the discourse, as well as to highlight some of the key features of the discursive field on contemporary terrorism. The binary representation and stereotyping within the contemporary discourse provides a one-dimensional representation of the issue of terrorism, and by questioning the conformity of these representations we can critically examine one of the most important social issues within our society.

Since the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001, a vast discourse on contemporary terrorism has emerged within 'Western' media. This thesis analyzes the discourse of contemporary terrorism, and highlights how the postcolonialist critique of Orientalism pioneered by Edward Said is still relevant within the discourse. This is accomplished by analyzing books that have been published post-9/11 and which have been reviewed in the journal Foreign Affairs. A primary goal of this thesis is to facilitate the de-reification of the socially constructed concepts of both 'the East' and 'the West' which currently dominate representations within the discourse, as well as to highlight some of the key features of the discursive field on contemporary terrorism. The binary representation and stereotyping within the contemporary discourse provides a one-dimensional representation of the issue of terrorism, and by questioning the conformity of these representations we can critically examine one of the most important social issues within our society.

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No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertação - Laísa Marra de Paula Cunha Bastos - 2015.pdf: 1622361 bytes, checksum: e1be07e3e8fb2277a0904bb198dc34e9 (MD5) license_rdf: 23148 bytes, checksum: 9da0b6dfac957114c6a7714714b86306 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-03-31 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / The study aims to understand the ways in which best-selling autobiographies by Muslim women are produced. As a representative corpus, the books Infidel, by Ayaan Hirsi Ali; Princess, by Jean Sasson/Sultana; and I am Malala, by Malala Yousafzai/Christina Lamb were selected. Using Pierre Bourdieu's methodology – for whom a literary work should not be studied only by its text, but also by its insertion and circulation in various fields (literary, political, social) – the study conjectures that these narratives of life, since manufactured in the West and founded on the logic of the cultural industry of mass production of popular literature, are presented to the public circumscribed by neo-Orientalist discourses of the clash of civilizations. We refer to the discourses displayed in the post-September 11, 2001, which, reiterating the Orientalist discourse criticized by Edward Said, divided the world into superior West versus inferior Middle East. Therefore, we investigate, in the first chapter, the implications of the discourse of War on Terror to the commercial interest in personal narratives of Muslim women. Furthermore, we describe the corpus of narratives in order to characterize the subgenre of best-selling autobiographies of Muslim women, especially with regard to the dichotomies freedom/oppression, subversion/submission. In the second chapter, we analyse the importance of the autobiographical genre and the concepts of truth and authenticity to the rise of these books, as well as the relations of co-authorship present in such narratives. Then, in the third chapter, the focus is on making visible the editorial voices and their contributions to the spectacularization of the topos of the Muslim woman as a victim to be rescued from her society. To do so, the discourses of the peritext (cover, back cover and tabs) of these autobiographies will be examined. Therefore, we seek to question the limits and possibilities of self-representation of the subaltern subject in contexts marked by inequality of forces and intermediations of the speech. / O trabalho objetiva compreender os modos de produção de autobiografias best-sellers de mulheres muçulmanas. Como corpus representativo, selecionamos os livros Infiel, de Ayaan Hirsi Ali; Princesa, de Jean Sasson/Sultana; e Eu sou Malala, de Malala Yousafzai/Christina Lamb. Usando metodologia de Pierre Bourdieu, para quem uma obra literária não deve ser estudada apenas por seu texto, mas também por sua inserção e circulação nos diversos campos (literário, político, social), parte-se da hipótese de que essas narrativas de vida, uma vez que fabricadas no Ocidente com base nas lógicas da indústria cultural de massa e da literatura de grande produção, são apresentadas ao público circunscritas pelos discursos neoorientalistas do choque de civilizações. Referimo-nos aos discursos veiculados no pós-11 de setembro de 2001, que, reiterando o discurso orientalista criticado por Edward Said, dividiram o mundo em Ocidente superior versus Oriente inferior. Assim sendo, investigam-se, no primeiro capítulo, as implicações dos discursos da Guerra ao Terror para o interesse comercial em narrativas pessoais de mulheres muçulmanas. Além disso, as narrativas do corpus são examinadas no intuito de caracterizar o subgênero de autobiografias best-sellers de mulheres muçulmanas, principalmente no que concerne às dicotomias liberdade/opressão, subversão/submissão. No segundo capítulo, problematizam-se os pressupostos e a importância do gênero autobiográfico e dos conceitos de verdade e autenticidade para a ascensão desses livros, bem como as relações de coautoria presentes em tais narrativas. Depois, no terceiro capítulo, o foco está em tornar visíveis as vozes editoriais e suas contribuições para a espetacularização do topos da mulher muçulmana enquanto vítima a ser resgatada de sua sociedade. Para tanto, serão analisados os discursos peritextuais dessas autobiografias (capa, contracapa e abas). Assim sendo, busca-se problematizar os limites e as possibilidades da auto-representação do sujeito subalterno em contextos marcados pela inequidade de forças e por agenciamentos da fala.