“Why do they hate us?” The motives behind terrorism in Don DeLillo’s Falling Man and John Updike’s Terrorist
On the 20th of September 2001, Bush asked the inflammatory question that quickly became ubiquitous in national and global conversations about 9/11: “[w]hy do they hate us?”. The simplistic answer he provided focused on “their” hatred of “our” way of life – “the American way”: “They hate our freedoms...
| Published in: | University of Bucharest Review. Literary and Cultural Studies Series |
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Bucharest University Press
2025-10-01
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