Treatment and Response of 9/11: Trauma, Displacement and Question of Identity in Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist
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Mohsin Hamid is famous novelist who has written two celebrated novels Moth Smoke (2000), and The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007). This paper looks into depiction of life and journey of central character Changez whose strive in his after 9/11 episode accumulated in United State of America. This paper also examines how the novelist has represented the situation of before 9/11 and after 9/11 in America for non-natives American people. Through the narrator Changez, Mohsin Hamid tries to show effects and results of terror how change the situation and life of Changez. Changez has not done anything wrong, but he was rebuked and the 9/11 episode has destroyed his peaceful life and his relationship also. The people from developing cultures imitate and adopt the American culture with the thinking of that they would accept, but they are canned as inferior as other. It explores the issues of hybridity and identity between native and non-native American people, through the analysis of the novel in the light of 9/11 episode in America.
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