Hartnell, Anna (2010) Moving through America: race, place and resistance in Mohsin Hamid's "The Reluctant Fundamentalist". Journal of Postcolonial Writing 46 (3-4), pp. 336-348. ISSN 1744-9855.
Abstract
This article explores Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist in the context of debates about US multiculturalism after 9/11. It suggests that while Hamid's novel undoubtedly identifies and critiques the racism at the heart of the so‐called war on terror – expressed both in domestic and foreign arenas – his text also appears to be seduced by certain aspects of American exceptionalism. Though the novel in part paints US imperial power as heir to the European colonial legacy, I argue that The Reluctant Fundamentalist also invests in the possibility that America might represent the transcendence of racial differences.
Metadata
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Keyword(s) / Subject(s): | America, race, multiculturalism, postcolonial, Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist |
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication |
| Research Centres and Institutes: | Contemporary Literature, Centre for |
| Depositing User: | Administrator |
| Date Deposited: | 22 Nov 2011 14:40 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Aug 2023 12:31 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/4400 |
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