This study argues that Ayad Akhtar’s play Disgraced (2013) falls into the trap of the prejudiced post-9/11 propagandist media in presenting a colonialist, over- deterministic view of the Muslim identity, irrespective of its hybridity. This misrepresentation, achieved by means of intertextual relations to Shakespeare’s Othello, is argued to be consistent with the typical demonic representation of Muslims as racial others, and in satisfaction of the US transition to the Homeland Security State and the pertaining foreign policy towards the Muslim world. This trajectory, it is believed, guarantees for Akhtar a good deal of popularity and artistic recognition. The argument is grounded on both Stuart Hall’s notions of ‘cultural identity’ in his essay “Cultural Identity and Diaspora” and Gilbert and Tompkins’ strategies of a canonical counter-discursive text in Post-colonial Drama: Theory, Practice, Politics. The study draws on a set of postcolonial concepts such as ‘mimicry’, ‘the beyond space’ and ‘hybridity’, among others, as re-negotiated by Homi Bhabha.
A. Noureiddin, H. (2020). Caught in the Propagandist Media: The Pro-Colonialist Discourse in Ayad Akhtar’s Disgraced. مجلة البحث العلمي في الآداب, 21(3), 23-41. doi: 10.21608/jssa.2020.107281
MLA
Haris A. Noureiddin. "Caught in the Propagandist Media: The Pro-Colonialist Discourse in Ayad Akhtar’s Disgraced". مجلة البحث العلمي في الآداب, 21, 3, 2020, 23-41. doi: 10.21608/jssa.2020.107281
HARVARD
A. Noureiddin, H. (2020). 'Caught in the Propagandist Media: The Pro-Colonialist Discourse in Ayad Akhtar’s Disgraced', مجلة البحث العلمي في الآداب, 21(3), pp. 23-41. doi: 10.21608/jssa.2020.107281
VANCOUVER
A. Noureiddin, H. Caught in the Propagandist Media: The Pro-Colonialist Discourse in Ayad Akhtar’s Disgraced. مجلة البحث العلمي في الآداب, 2020; 21(3): 23-41. doi: 10.21608/jssa.2020.107281
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