Zugl.: Diss. / Literaturverz. S. 183 - 189.

O objetivo desta tese é estudar os romances The Coup e Brazil, de John Updike, para mostrar que muito mais que apresentar contradições dos países onde estão ambientados, esses romances lidam com os Estados Unidos - tema constante do autor. Ambos romances mostram, por meio de uma organização formal diversa ao restante da obra de Updike, uma visão que países centrais têm dos países periféricos e, ao apresentar sua percepção do Outro, o Norte fala de si mesmo. Assim, por meio de uma leitura política - como proposto por Fredric Jameson - desses romances pode-se verificar como elementos como a Guerra Fria, o expansionismo, irreversibilidade histórica, igualdade racial, por exemplo, demonstram o movimento do modo de produção capitalista na qual os Estados Unidos são protagonistas. É essa revelação, escondida pelas estratégias de contenção e contida na forma dos romances, que proponho mapear na (re)leitura desses textos literários. / The objective of this thesis is to study the novels The Coup and Brazil, by John Updike, in order to show that much more than presenting contradictions from the countries where they are settled, these novels deal with the United States - the author's constant theme. Both novels show, through a formal organization which is different from the rest of the author's literary work, a vision the central countries have of the peripheral countries and, by showing its perception of the Other, North speaks about itself. Thus, through a political reading - as proposed by Fredric Jameson -of these novels, it is possible to verify how elementssuch as the Cold War, expansionism, historical irreversibility, racial equality, for instance, demonstrate the moviment of the caitalist mode of production in which the United States are protagonist. It is this revelation, hidden by the strategies of containment and in the form of the novels, which I propose to map in the (re)reading of these literary texts.

O objetivo desta tese é estudar os romances The Coup e Brazil, de John Updike, para mostrar que muito mais que apresentar contradições dos países onde estão ambientados, esses romances lidam com os Estados Unidos - tema constante do autor. Ambos romances mostram, por meio de uma organização formal diversa ao restante da obra de Updike, uma visão que países centrais têm dos países periféricos e, ao apresentar sua percepção do Outro, o Norte fala de si mesmo. Assim, por meio de uma leitura política - como proposto por Fredric Jameson - desses romances pode-se verificar como elementos como a Guerra Fria, o expansionismo, irreversibilidade histórica, igualdade racial, por exemplo, demonstram o movimento do modo de produção capitalista na qual os Estados Unidos são protagonistas. É essa revelação, escondida pelas estratégias de contenção e contida na forma dos romances, que proponho mapear na (re)leitura desses textos literários. / The objective of this thesis is to study the novels The Coup and Brazil, by John Updike, in order to show that much more than presenting contradictions from the countries where they are settled, these novels deal with the United States - the author's constant theme. Both novels show, through a formal organization which is different from the rest of the author's literary work, a vision the central countries have of the peripheral countries and, by showing its perception of the Other, North speaks about itself. Thus, through a political reading - as proposed by Fredric Jameson -of these novels, it is possible to verify how elementssuch as the Cold War, expansionism, historical irreversibility, racial equality, for instance, demonstrate the moviment of the caitalist mode of production in which the United States are protagonist. It is this revelation, hidden by the strategies of containment and in the form of the novels, which I propose to map in the (re)reading of these literary texts.

The paper describes social, economic and cultural processes in American society in the second half of the twentieth century and reveals the shift in traditional American values.

京都大学 / 新制・課程博士 / 博士(文学) / 甲第24341号 / 文博第915号 / 新制||文||730(附属図書館) / 京都大学大学院文学研究科文献文化学専攻 / (主査)教授 森 慎一郎, 准教授 小林 久美子, 教授 廣田 篤彦 / 学位規則第4条第1項該当 / Doctor of Letters / Kyoto University / DGAM

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Universiẗat, Diss--Paderborn, 2005.

The thesis paper focuses on the American suburbia, which is understood as an important social and cultural concept which plays a key role in the cultural history of America. The paper defines the basic characteristics and components of the utopian myth of the modern suburbs, such as the pastoral ideal, the notion of deliberate withdrawal from the urban areas, the role of the community or the focus on family togetherness. These concepts are traced in the American cultural history, especially in the idealized legacy of the early settlers and early Puritan communities. The development of the usage and depiction of these cultural concepts in the literary fiction of the period between the 1950s and 80s is then traced in the texts of three major American chroniclers of the suburban life - John Cheever, John Updike, and Raymond Carver. The social context and the historical development of the suburbs are also taken into consideration.

La pensée provenant du monde scientifique et celle représentée dans le cadre narratif du roman sont toutes deux issues d'une même volonté de révéler les objets de ces pensées, même si leur articulation est indubitablement différente. La science utilise le langage pour décrire le monde et aspire à des avancées techniques, alors que le langage du roman est l'expression d'une expérience. Les trois romans de notre étude intègrent certains aspects de la pensée scientifique et permettent ainsi de rendre compte des chassés-croisés entre la science et le littéraire. L'étude propose de faire état de l'appréhension du monde représentée dans Carpenter 's Gothic de William Gaddis, Roger 's Version de John Updike et Cat's Cradle de Kurt Vonnegut; à ce titre, nous serons en mesure de mettre en lumière les incidences de la pensée scientifique, épistémologique et philosophique dans ces romans. Nous articulerons comment les tensions entre les deux disciplines sont intimement liées aux processus langagiers dans ces fictions. Une réflexion sur la nature des savoirs et de la vérité est également au coeur de la dynamique de ces romans. L'imaginaire de la science permet d'anticiper un questionnement sur le rapport au monde de l'homme contemporain. Le présent mémoire tente globalement, en analysant comment la pensée scientifique se manifeste dans l'espace des romans, d'exposer comment les différents discours sur la science dans ces fictions caractérisent une pensée trouble essayant de faire sens d'un monde complexe et contradictoire. ______________________________________________________________________________ MOTS-CLÉS DE L’AUTEUR : William Gaddis, John Updike, Kurt Vonnegut, Littérature, Science, Société, Culture.

”Terrorism” is a term widely used today. It and its effects are portrayed and discussed innewspapers, in movies, on TV. Seeing as it seems to be present in most media, it appears quite inevitable that terrorism has also found its way into literature. Two examples of novels dealing with terrorism are the American novel Terrorist, written by John Updike in 2006 and Bernard MacLaverty's Northern Irish novel Cal, written in 1983. The novels have their similarities. They share terrorism as a major theme, and both of them have a young man as a protagonist. However, they differ in both time and place. Updike's novel is set in a post-9/11 New Jersey, while Cal takes place in a Northern Ireland divided by The Troubles. Furthermore, Updike's main character is a dedicated Muslim, while the main character of Cal is a not as dedicated Catholic. Indeed, the novels might seem similar at first, but the differences are significant.The perspective to be used in this essay is ethnic. Various theories on terrorism, manipulation and race will be used with said perspective in mind. The aim is to, with the help of relevant theories, examine and analyse the terrorism and its connection to religion and ethnicity in the two novels, in order to compare them and find out whether they portray these things in a different way or not. The question I will be asking, and thus the purpose of this essay, is whether the terrorismand its reasons, organisation – including influence by others – and connection to religion and ethnicity in the two novels mentioned above are similar or not. It is my belief that a comparative analysis of the novels will show that the terrorism and its connection to religion and ethnicity will not be the same in Cal as in Terrorist. One of the reasons for this is that they are set in environments that differ from each other not only geographically and chronologically, but also politically. Thus it seems likely that the reasons for and organisation of the terrorism will differ as well. Another reason is that the characters in Terrorist are more diverse than the ones in Cal, both in terms of religion and ethnicity. General theories dealing with reasons for terrorism, such as Kristopher K. Robison, Edward M. Crenshaw, and Craig J. Jenkins's theory on Islamist terrorism, according to which terrorism performed by Islamists is a reaction to the secular West (p. 2012), and Jeff Victoroff's rational choice theory, which suggests that terrorists are rational (p. 14), will be used to examine whether the characters of the two novels have different reasons for their terrorism or not.The next set of theories that will be used deal with influence, manipulation and brainwashing. Austin T. Turk suggests that a terrorist organisation often isolates its members inorder to ensure that they only have the required knowledge (p. 276), and since this can be used as a tool of manipulation, his theory will be used to examine, and compare, the level of influence and manipulation on the two protagonists. For similar reasons, I. E. Farber, Harry F. Harlow, Louis Jolyon West and Joel Rudinow's theories on manipulation, with and without deception, will be used in the comparative analysis. Finally, racial theories, like the theory of signs, which suggests that people have a tendency to divide others into categories based on their racial differences, along with theories on imperative patriotism and the Arab American stereotype will be used. According to Steven Salaita's imperative patriotism, only those who act and look American can be truly American (p. 154), and Jack G. Shaheen suggests that Arab Americans are, by many, thought to be violent Muslims (p. 23). Furthermore, analysts Mita Banerjee and Pamela Mansutti both suggest that there is in fact a connection between religion and race in Updike's novel (p. 16, p. 108). These theories and ideas will be used to analyse the connection between terrorism, ethnicity and religion, and then to compare the two novels, whereupon a conclusion will be drawn. I believe that this conclusion will indeed confirm my thesis.