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911 AND THE DILEMMA OF PAKISTANS IMAGE REREADING HAMIDS RESPONSE IN RELUCTANT FUNDAMENTALIST AND DISCONTENT AND ITS CIVILIZATIONS

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http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/glr.2021(VI-II).18      10.31703/glr.2021(VI-II).18      Published : Jun 2021

9/11 and the Dilemma of Pakistan's Image: Rereading Hamid's Response in Reluctant Fundamentalist and Discontent and Its Civilizations

Abstract

    The contemporary age is of globalization that is engulfing smaller cultures and their local values into today's big Americanized fold of cultural and economic domination. Pakistan, after 9/11, has been the worst victim of cultural hegemony and economic depression besides loss of invaluable lives despite being front line ally of America in its global war on terror. Mohsin Hamid's is the strongest,unapologetic, and culturally rooted response to the multifarious crisis Pakistan has been experiencing. He is being realistic towards the cultural clash and overlap not only exposes how the Pakistani indigenous value system is being distorted as well as acceptance of the new technophobe.Himself a Pakistani Muslim, he fictionally and critically creates space for the voice of Pakistani Muslim margin against the westernized framing of the overseas media for the global center. This article studies how he has addressed the challenges to Pakistani, cultural, national, ethnic, and religious identity in his imaginative and factional works.

    Pakistan, Globalization, Civilization, English Literature, Representation, 9/11, War on Terror, Media

    (1) Zeeshan Aslam
    Lecturer, Department of English, Government College University Faisalabad (Chiniot Campus), Punjab, Pakistan.
    (2) Ghulam Murtaza
    ssociate Professor, Department of English, Government College University Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan.
    (3) Saba Rasheed
    MPhil English Literature, Department of English, Government College University Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan
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APA

    APA : Aslam, Z., Murtaza, G., & Rasheed, S. (2021). 9/11 and the Dilemma of Pakistan's Image: Rereading Hamid's Response in Reluctant Fundamentalist and Discontent and Its Civilizations. Global Language Review, VI(II), 162 - 171. https://doi.org/10.31703/glr.2021(VI-II).18

CHICAGO

    CHICAGO : Aslam, Zeeshan, Ghulam Murtaza, and Saba Rasheed. 2021. "9/11 and the Dilemma of Pakistan's Image: Rereading Hamid's Response in Reluctant Fundamentalist and Discontent and Its Civilizations." Global Language Review, VI (II): 162 - 171 doi: 10.31703/glr.2021(VI-II).18

HARVARD

    HARVARD : ASLAM, Z., MURTAZA, G. & RASHEED, S. 2021. 9/11 and the Dilemma of Pakistan's Image: Rereading Hamid's Response in Reluctant Fundamentalist and Discontent and Its Civilizations. Global Language Review, VI, 162 - 171.

MHRA

    MHRA : Aslam, Zeeshan, Ghulam Murtaza, and Saba Rasheed. 2021. "9/11 and the Dilemma of Pakistan's Image: Rereading Hamid's Response in Reluctant Fundamentalist and Discontent and Its Civilizations." Global Language Review, VI: 162 - 171

MLA

    MLA : Aslam, Zeeshan, Ghulam Murtaza, and Saba Rasheed. "9/11 and the Dilemma of Pakistan's Image: Rereading Hamid's Response in Reluctant Fundamentalist and Discontent and Its Civilizations." Global Language Review, VI.II (2021): 162 - 171 Print.

OXFORD

    OXFORD : Aslam, Zeeshan, Murtaza, Ghulam, and Rasheed, Saba (2021), "9/11 and the Dilemma of Pakistan's Image: Rereading Hamid's Response in Reluctant Fundamentalist and Discontent and Its Civilizations", Global Language Review, VI (II), 162 - 171

TURABIAN

    TURABIAN : Aslam, Zeeshan, Ghulam Murtaza, and Saba Rasheed. "9/11 and the Dilemma of Pakistan's Image: Rereading Hamid's Response in Reluctant Fundamentalist and Discontent and Its Civilizations." Global Language Review VI, no. II (2021): 162 - 171. https://doi.org/10.31703/glr.2021(VI-II).18