REPRESENTATION OF MUSLIMS’ CONDITION IN AMERICA AFTER 9/11 INCIDENT: POSTCOLONIAL STUDY OF THE NOVEL ‘THE RELUCTANT FUNDAMENTALIST’

Wahid Pervez

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The present study compares the conditions of protagonist of the novel, Changez, with the colonized nation. The study shows the place of Muslims and Muslim countries in the eyes of Americans after 9/11 incident. Changez as postcolonial subject represents the state of the Muslims, colonized by Europeans. In America his way of living represents him hybrid, who, leaving his native culture adopts the culture of another country. ‘Other’ is the most important element of postcolonial theory found in the novel. After 9/11 incident, Changez feels that he is ‘other’ means not fully human. Americans’ changing attitude makes him diaspora. Before the fall of World Trade Centre, he never remembered his home. As a nativist, he has beard in protest and leaving his job comes back to Pakistan. Moreover, research will describe the values and demands of the Muslims who were well settled in America since long? The paper will focus on the sudden changing attitude of Americans to Muslims after 9/11 incident.

 

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hybridity, other, diaspora (unhommed) and nativism

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