Essays about: "The Reluctant Fundamentalist"

Found 5 essays containing the words The Reluctant Fundamentalist.

  1. 1. “Excuse me, sir, but may I be of assistance? Ah, I see I have alarmed you. Do not be frightened by my beard: I am a lover of America” : Highlighting bias in The Reluctant Fundamentalist with Positioning Theory, for the purpose of teaching students to critically assess narratives

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Linus Bergström; [2020]
    Keywords : The Reluctant Fundamentalist; Positioning theory; Ethics; Narratives; Discourse; Bias; EFL classroom. Upper Secondary school;

    Abstract : This paper sets out to analyze The Reluctant Fundamentalist by a narratological application of positioning theory with the aim of highlighting the bias of the main character. The paper argues that using said novel in the English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classroom in conjunction with positioning theory could result in an improved understanding of how language is used in different situations for different purposes, which in turn can teach students to critically assess narratives in any medium. READ MORE

  3. 2. The Evolution of Changez' Identity : Hybridity and Culture in Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Tove Hermansson; [2020]
    Keywords : hybridity; fractured identity; culture; orientalism; the East; the West; Pakistan; America;

    Abstract : This essay explores the concept of hybridity and its relation to cultural identity in Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007). Changez' identity is analysed by using postcolonial theory and its notion of hybrid identities. READ MORE

  4. 3. Cosmopolitanism as an Antidote to American Nationalism in Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Serra Hughes; [2019]
    Keywords : cosmopolitanism; American nationalism; Mohsin Hamid; 9 11; AK Appiah;

    Abstract : This essay explores how The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid offers a potential cosmopolitan antidote to the myths of American nationalism which allow the United States to pursue self-interested policies abroad that consequently deny the humanity of those who are seen as commodities or collateral damage. Using Richard T. READ MORE

  5. 4. Literature for the Intercultural Classroom : Discussing Ethnocentric Issues Using The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Robert Jönsson; [2015]
    Keywords : Postcolonialism; Religion; Multicultural Education;

    Abstract : Abstract This essay takes as its starting point that the Swedish classroom often is an intercultural environment and that it is therefore important to address issues connected to ethnocentrism in it. In this essay I examine how the novel The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid can be used in schools to raise such ethnocentric issues. READ MORE

  6. 5. The Orient and The Occident : Breaking Stereotypes in The Reluctant Fundamentalist

    University essay from Institutionen för språk och litteratur, SOL

    Author : Julie Blomberg Gudmundsson; [2012]
    Keywords : Postcolonialism; Occidentalism; Orientalism; Stereotypes; Mohsin Hamid;

    Abstract : The Reluctant Fundamentalist is a postcolonial novel that, in this essay, is argued to challenge and question the colonial stereotypes which came into greater focus after 9/11 in America. The challenge is carried out via the narrator’s identity struggle by displaying the different stereotypes he is subjected to. READ MORE