Beyond Borders: A Critical Study of Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist


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  • Sayar Ahmad Mir Research Scholar, Department of English, Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Hyderabad, India

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.53032/TCL.2021.6.2.07

Keywords:

Crossing, Marginalisation, Transnational, Borders, Geography

Abstract

This paper explores the crossing of borders in Mohsin Hamid’s award-winning novel, The Reluctant Fundamentalist. It is an effort to showcase the way Hamid breaks the set ideals and constructions that have been reigning in literature for decades. It attempts to show the transnational journey of the protagonist, Changez from Lahore to the US and his return to his country. The paper depicts the failure of American society to stick to its moral values. Moreover, it portrays the mistreatment Muslims go through after September 11.

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Adnan, Mahmutović. “To Issue a Firefly’s Glow Wormhole Geographies and Positionality in Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist.” Transnational Literature, vol. 11, no. 1, 2018, pp. 1–17.

Khan, Gohar Karim. Narrating Pakistan Transnationally : Identity, Politics and Terrorism in Anglophone Pakistani Literature after “ 9 / 11 ” PhD Thesis. University of Warwick, 2013.

Hamid, Mohsin. The Reluctant Fundamentalist. Penguin Random House India, 2007. Behnken, Brian and Simon Wendt, editors.Crossing Boundaries: Ethnicity, Race, and National Belonging in a Transnational World. Lexington Books, 2013.

Vertovec, Steven. Transnationalism. Routledge, 2009.

Yeoh, Brenda S.A., and Katie Willis, editors. State/Nation/Transnation. Routledge, 2004

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Published

2021-06-30

How to Cite

Sayar Ahmad Mir. “Beyond Borders: A Critical Study of Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist”. The Creative Launcher, vol. 6, no. 2, June 2021, pp. 43-46, doi:10.53032/TCL.2021.6.2.07.

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