La représentation post 11 septembre des arabes musulmanes dans la série Quantico

Résumé du document

Cette partie d'un mémoire concentré sur la représentation post 11 septembre des arabes musulmanes dans la série Quantico se concentre sur les personnages des sœurs jumelles Amin mais parle aussi notamment des autres personnages issus de minorités ethniques aux Etats-Unis.

Voici le plan du document :

1 – The twin sisters as a symbol of a tragic event
a – Raina and Nimah: metaphor of the destroyed twin towers: double identity and veil lifted?
b - The twin sisters and their relationship with Simon Asher: towards a reconciliation of the Israeli-Palestinian relationship, or how the conflict is presented as a Romeo and Juliet romantic relationship

2 – Quantico as a television series placing female characters in superior roles, in particular, Muslim women.
a – The Muslim woman and her representation
b – The other Muslim characters in the series and their representation

Extraits

[...] As Muslims are habitually painted as the aggressors of all problems in the Middle East, the fact that a Jew who saw their alleged injustices and aggressions while he was in the Israeli Defense Forces can not only accept but fall in love with someone whose faith is supposed to demand the destruction of the followers of his own, how can a viewer not reconsider their position on Muslims? Begin to see followers of the Muslim faith as humans as well. The role of Simon Asher is not to just to be a love interest, but to again challenge many of the core beliefs of Middle America when it comes to Muslims. If a Jew can forgive and fall in love, a Christian should be able to unlearn hatred and fear of Muslims. [...]

[...] With a particular focus on the boring, frustrating, mundane experiences those characters have and which are entirely relatable to people of differing racial, gender or sexual identities. This change has also empowered viewers who share the identities of the characters, encouraging them with a positive vision of themselves shared to the outside world. This is precisely what Raina and Nimah offer to young Muslim women in America, as articulately demonstrated by contributor Fatin Marini on patheos.com : Raina and Nimah offer hope, while disproving yet again the stereotype of the Arab as a member of an extremist movement. There is a downside, however. [...]

[...] Popular imagination linked the interpretations of the Muslim faith that required women to be covered, controlled and removed from public life, to the new enemies of America. The Taliban, Sharia Law, and more recently the Boko Haram kidnappers of the Chibok schoolgirls, have become the boogeymen that good Americans must fight. They force women to be subservient, back into that historical role early Hollywood promoted with such exuberance: taken against their will and used as entertainment or sexual slaves to men. [...]

[...] a - Raina et Nimah : métaphore des tours jumelles détruites : double identité et voile levé ? Consequently, the driving question behind the characters Raina and Nimah is Representation of this minority in American society could have been handled a myriad of ways, why choose female characters, and why have two of them? First, the question of women in America, particularly the ideal vehiculed by American media. For outsiders and Americans themselves, the default American woman is a blond, usually with blue eyes, and most certainly of European descent. [...]

[...] As the Council on American-Islamic Relations has had to draw the attention of the writers of the television series 24 to their problematic representation of Arabs and Muslims, and conspiracy theories continue to run wild that President Obama is a "secret Muslim", `furious' that Sharia Law would not be taught in classrooms, it's clear that the postracial dream is not yet a reality. And although there are more and more religious and ethnic minorities portrayed positively on television and in film, much progress has yet to be made. [...]