Global Citizenship in Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist
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2016-04-27
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Mahmutovic, Adnan
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In this paper, I use the established readings of Mohsin Hamid’s novel The Reluctant Fundamentalistas a political allegory of contemporary international relations to formulate an inquiry into the notion of citizenship. Taking my cue from Aihwa Ong’s work on “flexible citizenship,” which stresses the way global capital calls for disrespect of national borders and laws, I look at the way Hamid’s novelistic imagination problematises the conflict between economic, political, and social citizenships and how it looks forward to the emergence of a new understandings of citizenship as something defined in terms of global rights and duties.
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Citizenship, Globalisation, Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist