The Image of Terrorism in Abdullah Thabit’s The 20th Terrorist
Aisha Y. O. Hakami, Department of Arabic Language and Literature, Tabuk University, Tabuk, Saudi Arabia.
Abstract
The research aims to explore the sources of terrorism in the Saudi society through studying fiction. In this research, the idea of terrorism is not studied as a political discourse but as a part of social dynamics, in which terrorism holds the society back while the latter is trying to untangle the threads of terrorism so the recipient can make sense of the nature and evolution of terrorism. The research poses some questions as well: why does the term “terrorism” become an issue of primary significance? How does the term “terrorism” spread and become culturally hegemonic? Does the Saudi novelist deal with “terrorism” as a modernist phenomenon or as just keeping up with contemporary events and artistic experimentation?
Key words: Novel, Literature, Saudi Arabia, Terrorist, Literary criticism, Narration, Narrative, Story, Terrorists, Terrorism, Confrontation.