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One of the characteristics of American literature since September 11 was that writers trying to understand the reasons and consequences of terrorist attacks were engaged in saying terrorism. The long history of the disagreement between the West and Islam is reappearing with the explosion of every new disagreement, and literary reactions until September 11 reflect this trend. When we entered the second decade after 11 September, the response to 11 September was mostly in the form of a singing speech about terrorism. John Updike, a renowned and prestigious novelist, tries to understand the causes and consequences of terror, but fails to effectively relate to the "Other" because these efforts are based on Orientalist prejudices and trials. The works of the authors describe individual terrorists as Muslim clichés and then combine these clichés with a speech built about Islam. The writer’s fictional terrorists’ individual actions are presented as a manifestation of back and violent religion. These characteristics are later displayed as a thesis with an advanced and illuminated West. The contradictions he built on Updike were expected in the theoretical field of the last Palestinian-American literary theorist, Edward Said. The Western speech claims that it creates prejudices by labeling its prejudices against non-Western cultures as "Other". The statement says it continues to show itself after 11 September. Based on Said’s theory of Orientalism, this article is analyzed in John Updike’s “Terrorist” work on the image of Islam and Muslims.

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