Globalization, US Imperialism and Fundamentalism: A Study of Mohsin Hamid's<i>The Reluctant Fundamentalist</i>

Haider, Nishat

doi:10.1080/02759527.2012.11932885

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“…Shafqat and Alisha related it to cultural binarism and racial prejudice. This conforms to Bakhtin"s idea that novel as a narrative space makes readers think about future possibilities as well (Gardiner, 1992). Contrarily, Aqsa questions the strict binarism between East and West and hence, challenges the ideology of the dominating versus dominated through depicting the American foreigner as dominated and Changez as the dominating character in the beginning of the novel.…”

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‘The world where dreams come true’- Using the novel The Reluctant Fundamentalist to explore the cultural and religious identity issues through an online literary exchange

Sundus Javaid,

Dr. Ghazal Shaikh,

Dr. Waseem Malik

2024

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This paper presents original research which explores university students’ perceptions of cultural and religious identity issues in relation to Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist at two public sector universities in Sindh and Punjab, Pakistan. The theoretical concepts of dialogism and mestiza consciousness are used as major frameworks governing this study. The findings are based on data supplied by 16 students through google circles. The key arguments based on findings of this study are that the participants discussed and connected to cultural and religious identity in the novel that was geographically, socially and temporally close in terms of their local and global context. These results are important for curriculum designers, teachers and researchers in dialogism, mestiza consciousness, fiction and education in the context as they provide significant insights into students’ perceptions in relation to fiction

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confidence: 71%

“…According to Bakhtin, it is dynamic and remains in the process of transformation. Gardiner (1992) explains how Bakhtin"s concept of dialogism is significant in a number of ways. Firstly, it negates the authority of an author in a given text.…”

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‘The world where dreams come true’- Using the novel The Reluctant Fundamentalist to explore the cultural and religious identity issues through an online literary exchange

Sundus Javaid,

Dr. Ghazal Shaikh,

Dr. Waseem Malik

2024

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“…Many scholars have examined the role of globalization and cosmopolitanism that influence Changez's transnational trajectory to the United States (Jarandikar & Jarandikar 2014;Karagöz 2020;Mahmutovic 2016). Concurrently, other critics have illuminated America's economic fundamentalism as exemplified in the practices of the Underwood Samson company, which capitalizes on the expertise of skilled immigrants from the East within its capitalist machinery, thereby maintaining a structured economic gulf between their countries of origin and America (Araújo 2012;Hai 2020;Haider 2012;Kennedy 2018).…”

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Navigating Economic Inclusion and Psychological Exclusion

Mleitat,

Hamamra,

Qabaha

2023

ASQ

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Drawing on Kristeva’s theory of abjection, Wallerstein’s world system theory, and Petras’ imperialist-centered model of capitalist accumulation, this article argues that the immigration of Changez from Pakistan to America in The Reluctant Fundamentalist demonstrates a structural shift from the periphery to the center as a highly educated and skilled human capital in the era of global capitalism. The article contends that Changez’s decision to accept a funded scholarship at Princeton University is a result of the lack of economic opportunities in Pakistan and the corrupt economic and political systems that impoverished his family. Furthermore, the article critically examines America’s paradoxical policies of inclusion and exclusion toward Changez. While he gains access to Princeton University and the Underwood Samson company, his economic inclusion is not accompanied by genuine acceptance. In the context of global capitalism, Changez is economically included but psychologically abjected due to his ethnic identity.

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The rise of fundamentalist narratives - a post-9/11 legacy? Toward understanding American fundamentalist discourse

Altwaiji

2021

Cogent Social Sciences

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Why would a group of writers act in a way that appears to readers as literary fundamentalism, such as post 9/11 American writers? Most of the effective causes underlie superior behaviors, namely, neo-orientalist ideology and imperial interests quite enough to threaten the survival of scholarly literature on 9/11 attacks. Fundamentalist narratives have increasingly become the concern of critics and readers over the last two decades. This study aims to explore post-9/11 writers' fundamentalist tendencies that have increasingly become a part of contemporary narratives on a larger scale in political narratives. A central inquiry in the study is how adherence to fundamentals, perceived as a basic principle for a profession or a new feature in the literature, may develop into fundamentalism. It also investigates the ways in which fundamentalist narratives racialize a collective subject described as "Islam and the Muslims" in the aftermath of 9/11. This category became more prominent in fundamentalist narratives that are in harmony and solidarity with the state and its agenda, ignoring its imperial attitude toward the Middle East. Analysis refers to Updike's Terrorist as an example of fundamentalist text that manifestly identifies Arabs, their intentions, their culture, and their religion as barbaric and aggressive. The circumstances under which these narratives developed and influenced American writers' attitudes are also explored.

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Globalization, US Imperialism and Fundamentalism: A Study of Mohsin Hamid'sThe Reluctant Fundamentalist

Cited by 5 publications

References 46 publications

‘The world where dreams come true’- Using the novel The Reluctant Fundamentalist to explore the cultural and religious identity issues through an online literary exchange

‘The world where dreams come true’- Using the novel The Reluctant Fundamentalist to explore the cultural and religious identity issues through an online literary exchange

Navigating Economic Inclusion and Psychological Exclusion

The rise of fundamentalist narratives - a post-9/11 legacy? Toward understanding American fundamentalist discourse

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