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This study tries to examine lack of identity, ambiguity and ambivalence. The Pakistanis identity is progressively jeopardized after 9/11 state than it was ever previously. It is clear that the Pakistanis allocated to different groups at war with each other on political, spiritual and sectional issues. The paper sheds light on the main character, Changez for being strong and not being influenced by crucial situations he encountered. Hamid tries to show the real face of American after 9/11 events and how they quickly attribute false propaganda against Muslims. To have one sole national personali...

This paper highlights the variant aspects of what we may call the reluctance of fundamentalism and liberalism in post-postcolonial contemporary Pakistani literature in English, analyzing comparatively both exclusive and inclusive elements of its extensive canvas. This research project began with curiosity regarding an element of reluctance between two characters of Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist. The two main characters of the novel, Changez and an unnamed American visitor represent allegiances to two different schools of thought: Changez to fundamentalism and the American to...

The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid is a novel that explores several issues related to the relationship between America and the Islamic world in the contexts of post 9/11. In this politicised climate of intensified nationalistic attitudes characterised by fear and suspicion of the ‘other’, Hamid’s novel foregrounds the acrimonious encounter between America and its Muslim other(s). The text seeks to reverse the dominant rhetoric of the West, and create a space that allows the Muslim ‘other’ a chance to speak; a gesture that also illustrates the process of disillusionment. The novel acc...

This article is based on a study of The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007), a novel by a Pakistani writer Mohsin Hamid. The novel is based on the story of transformation of an expat Pakistani living in New York from a true cosmopolitan to a nationalist. The article will explore the crisis of identity suffered by the protagonist in a new land where he reached as an immigrant student and worker. However, he experienced a resurgence of nationalist and patriotic sentiments within him as 9/ 11 happened in 2001. The force of American nationalism that was imperial in nature, resulting in the invasion of...

Abstract : This study was aimed at getting the description of Changez’s character in the novel “ The Reluctant Fundamentalist ” based on Hybridity Theory of postcolonial analysis and in order to find out how is Hybridity and the hybrid identity affect the character of Changez, since the writer assumes that the character has undergone the hybrid identity. This was a qualitative study with descriptive analysis method in analyzing the Changez Character of the novel. The research used verbal data; such as texts as the basic analysis and in solving the research problems. The analysis shows that the...

A transnational approach to individual identity has come to the fore front recently. This approach is what Mohsin Hamid is concerned with in his novel The Reluctant Fundamentalist, in which he presents a transnational character displaying the Pakistani experience of migration to America. The protagonist of the novel, Changez, has bicultural characteristics and his idea of home changes in accordance with time and space. In the first half of his story, America is the place where Changez feels "at home." However, there is a particular turning point of life for him, which is the 9/11 attack to the...

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9/11 terror strike had wrecked havoc on the cultural, political, economic, religious, to name only a few, configurations in America thereby disconcerting social status quo at large. Before the demolition of twin tower in America, a marker of economic condescension of America upon the rest of the world, America had resorted to a number of politico-economic ploys to invite skilled workers in America intending to chisel the steady prosperity of America in the domains of commerce and education. For instance, America, intently, used to cater scholarships to impoverished yet brilliant students, acro...

This paper examines two “9/11 novels,” Joseph O’Neill’s Netherland (2008) and Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007). Written by writers of different backgrounds but with similarly cosmopolitan career paths, both novels attempt to achieve a transnational perspective on the climate of fear created by the 9/11 attacks. Both novels unveil a history of violence which links colonial legacy and new imperial formations resulting from neoliberal capitalism, ultimately highlighting difficulties in forging an encompassing cosmopolitan perspective at a time of international insecurity. Key...

1. Assistant Professor, Department of English, The Women University, Multan, Punjab, Pakistan 2. Professor, Department of English, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Punjab, Pakistan PAPER INFO ABSTRACT Received: April 08, 2020 Accepted: June 15, 2020 Online: June 30, 2020 Pakistani fiction in English, in recent times, has been resignified and re-contextualized by the forces of the global imaginary, in particular by the authors residing in various parts of the globe, and the national imaginary seems to have been eclipsed or over-shadowed by the global capitalist/imperial forces as well as ...

This study examined The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid, a response to American position on 9/11. The author's 'research back' and 'counter history' literary technique was explored to analyze it as a fiction of confrontation and reconciliation. Both the elements have been studied with reference to vivid symbolism of the characters, names, situations, texts and references. The novel is a bold encounter with American political narrative and military response. Out of a huge volume of post-9/11 fiction, The Reluctant Fundamentalist stands out as a part of counter narrative literature. Thi...

Silencing the Other: The Reluctant Fundamentalist as a Counter Discourse "Excuse me, sir, but may I be of assistance? Ah, I see I have alarmed you. Do not be frightened by my beard. I am a lover of America..." So speaks the mysterious Pakistani at a Lahore cafe as the dark settles, seeming to invite the reader to sip tea with them as he/she reads absorbed in his ironic "conversation" with his unnamed American guest. We are living in an era of constant exposure to one-sided discourses in every single phase of our lives through various forms of media. This is such an exposure that on one hand, w...

It is a fact that Translatability and Untranslatability have been disputed by various scholars over a long period and the debate goes ahead to the present time. The translation is such a delicate and intricate undertaking, that it raises some major concerns to deal with, therefore, this paper examines numerous issues related to the translation of source text into the target text. As is known that the translation process is a difficult task, hence to deal with both the apparent and deep relationships of language, a translator should have some critical linguistics expertise to avoid ambiguity in...

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Violence in twenty first century remains one of the most ominous global phenomenons, which multiplies and mutates with rapidity that frustrates all attempts at interpretation, codification and containment. Although there is no dearth of violence in its most gruesome manifestation in every corner of the globe, what still continues to elude us is the insidious process of its genesis and its gradual evolution into a full blown conflict with its attendant horrors of death and devastation. Do we miss the early warning signs or simply choose to ignore it or perhaps are deluded enough by the repeated...

ABSTRACT For a novel consistently teetering on the brink of violence, Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist begins in a surprisingly benign manner but ultimately offers a sustained interrogation of the possibilities and limits of hospitality in a time of terror. The novel is permeated by references to familiar forms of hospitality and their ultimate failure, yet this article focuses more specifically on the troubling implications The Reluctant Fundamentalist has for a philosophy of hospitality; that is, what appears as a failure of hospitality—the inevitable violence of the novel’s concl...

The Reluctant Fundamentalist offers a more recent and contemporary portrayal of  9/11 fiction. This thesis uses postcolonial theory to analyze Mohsin Hamid’s novel, published in 2007. The novel chronicles the protagonist Changez’s life before, during, and after the 9/11 and how his view of America’s capitalism and imperialism-centered society and his identity shifts in the wake of the attacks. It is allegories to display identity and has frequently been used in post-colonial discourse to mean simply cross-cultural 'exchange' to the Pakistani immigrant named Changez Khan in the novel. The novel...

J. Reuben Clark’s 1938 speech to Mormon religious educators established a litmus test of orthodoxy based on belief in the historicity of Joseph Smith’s first vision. Dale Morgan and then Fawn Brodie provided source-critical readings of the evidence that called the historicity of the vision into question. Mormons who were aware of the tensions between these views had to wrestle with them. Faced with a new attack on Smith’s canonized account of his first vision, prophets and apostles stood with the story, trusting it as history and upholding it as a model for young, increasingly educated Latter-...

An online guide to research resources and help for Eurih Lee's English 102 course using Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist.