Disillusionment and Alienation in Hamid's selected works

Download or read book Disillusionment and Alienation in Hamid's selected works written by Farheen Shakir and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2017-01-30 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.