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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">RUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and Journalism</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">RUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and Journalism</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: Литературоведение. Журналистика</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">2312-9220</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2312-9247</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University)</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">46775</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22363/2312-9220-2025-30-3-548-557</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="edn">AVPTKK</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>LITERARY CRITICISM</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>Литературоведение</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">American Systematic Violence as an Imputes of Muslim Oppression in Home Boy by H.M. Naqvi</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Cистематическое насилие со стороны американцев как признак угнетения мусульман в романе Х.М. Накви «Домашний мальчик»</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0350-711X</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Fakhrulddin</surname><given-names>Saif Raed Nafia</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Фахруддин</surname><given-names>Саиф Раед Нафия</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>PhD in English Literature, Lecturer of English Literature, Department of Translation, College of Arts</p></bio><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>кандидат наук по английской литературе, преподаватель английской литературы, кафедра переводоведения, факультет искусств</p></bio><email>snafia@uowasit.edu.iq</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">University of Wasit</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Васитский университет</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2025-10-30" publication-format="electronic"><day>30</day><month>10</month><year>2025</year></pub-date><volume>30</volume><issue>3</issue><issue-title xml:lang="en">New Indiaʼs voice: media, culture, and communication</issue-title><issue-title xml:lang="ru">Новый голос Индии: медиа, культура и коммуникации</issue-title><fpage>548</fpage><lpage>557</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2025-10-30"><day>30</day><month>10</month><year>2025</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2025, Fakhrulddin S.R.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2025, Фахруддин С.Р.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2025</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Fakhrulddin S.R.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Фахруддин С.Р.</copyright-holder><ali:free_to_read xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/"/><license><ali:license_ref xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0</ali:license_ref></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://journals.rudn.ru/literary-criticism/article/view/46775">https://journals.rudn.ru/literary-criticism/article/view/46775</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en"><p>The contemporary British-born Pakistani author H.M. Naqvi (b. 1973) has written two novels. His first novel, Home Boy (2009), narrates the socio-cultural dilemma of the Muslim character Chuck and how the American society scents him as a lower individual in post9/11 attacks. This study focuses on the oppression of Muslim minority characters in American society, as I assume that America is reflective of the violent society, which is an essential problem to the oppression of Muslims in the selected novel. Using textual analysis methodology, I examine the depictions of Muslim minority characters by applying the concept of violence and its related critical insights of oppression by the American socio-feminist philosopher, Iris Marion Young. The objective of this study, thus, is to examine the author’s depictions of the American society as the violent society that oppresses the Muslim minority characters in the selected novel. The findings lie in demonstrating the Muslim characters’ oppressed state as a signifying factor of their vulnerable position amidst the violent American society.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru"><p>Цель настоящего исследования - раскрыть художественное своеобразие и острый социальный смысл творчества современного пакистанского писателя британского происхождения Х.М. Накви (род. 1973). Х.М. Накви написал два романа. Его первое произведение «Домашний мальчик» (2009) рассказывает о социокультурной дилемме, с которой сталкивается мусульманин Чак, о том, что американское общество воспринимает его как неполноценного человека после терактов 11 сентября. В статье показано, как в американском обществе подвергаются преследованию и дискриминации представители мусульманских меньшинств. Вопрос об угнетении мусульман в романе является центральным. Америка в целом представлена как общество насилия. Использование социологического метода, а также работ феминистского социального философа Айрис Мэрион янг позволило представить в исследовании картину тотального насилия в романе по отношению к мусульманским меньшинствам. В заключение предложен вывод о том, что роман писателя является ярким острым социальным произведением, в котором на примере главного героя Чака раскрыты методы и инструменты расового насилия и способы противостояния ему, а американское общество представлено как система тотального насилия.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>novel</kwd><kwd>violence</kwd><kwd>society</kwd><kwd>character</kwd><kwd>Muslim identity</kwd><kwd>oppression</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>роман</kwd><kwd>насилие</kwd><kwd>общество</kwd><kwd>персонаж</kwd><kwd>мусульманская идентичность</kwd><kwd>угнетение</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group/></article-meta><fn-group/></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><mixed-citation>Abdelsalam, H.M. 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