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Disillusionment and Alienation in Hamid's selected works

Disillusionment and Alienation in Hamid's selected works

Shakir, Farheen

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Literary CriticismGeneral ReferenceGeneral Education

ISBN10: 3668388970
ISBN13: 9783668388970
Publisher: Grin Verlag
Published: Feb 20 2017
Pages: 92
Weight: 0.29
Height: 0.22 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
Examination Thesis from the year 2014 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: A, course: M.A. ENGLISH, language: English, abstract: The present research aims at exploring the themes of disillusionment and alienation with regard to the construction of identity in two postcolonial novels by Pakistani author Mohsin Hamid's Moth Smoke (MS, 2000) and How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia (HGFRRA, 2013) taking theoretical insights from the works of Karl Marx (1883), Homi K. Bhabha (1994) and others. A common thread running through these novels is the juxtapositioning of estrangement and alienation while fighting for the basic right of getting prospects to thrive in life. How the cultural and identity conflicts in developing Asia emerged as the reason for personal estrangement of characters from reality; how the protagonists were found to be fragmented and how they used underhand ways to get rich is explored in Hamid's selected works.

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