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    Re-complicating identity in Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist

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    Date
    2015
    Author
    Bhat, Shafayat Hussain
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    At the heart of a person's life lies the struggle to define his self, to make sense of who he is? Diaspora represents the settling as well as unsettling process. While redesigning the geopolitical boundaries, cultural patterns, it has also reshaped the identities of the immigrants with new challenges confronting the immigrant in negotiating his identity. Diaspora becomes a site where past is given a new meaning and is preserved out of intense nostalgia and longing. The novel The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid is significant in its treatment of the issues faced by immigrants in the diaspora. Mohsin Hamid has grounded his resistance narrative in the identity narrative and through the prism of identity offers a deep insight into the American society and its ideals. The novel exposes the ugly side of the American society with its fundamentalist institutions and dislodges the narratives of fundamentalism as a Muslim monopoly and inverts the myths and discourses on identity to produce a counter narrative
    Journal
    International Journal of English Language, Literature in Humanities
    Access Type
    Open Access
    URI
    http://210.212.34.21handle/32116/2372
    URL
    http://ijellh.com/OJS/index.php/OJS/article/view/846
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