A POSTCOLONIAL READING OF "THE OTHER" IN THE RELUCTANT FUNDAMENTALIST BY MOHSIN HAMID

Abstract

The Reluctant Fundamentalist depicts the 9/11 story in a more modern and contemporary light. Postcolonial theory is used to examine Mohsin Hamid's work, which was released in 2007. After the 9/11 attacks, Changez's vision of America's capitalist and imperialist culture transforms, and he begins to question his own identity in the aftermath of the atrocities. As an allegory for displaying one's identity, it has been commonly used in post-colonial discourse to refer to the fictional Pakistani immigrant Changez's experience of crosscultural "exchange." A Pakistani immigrant in search of a job in the United States is the focus of this novel, which makes it stand out. What role does fiction play in generating and re-imagining history? This question may be answered using postcolonial tropes. We can observe how postcolonial themes have grown and persisted in the wake of 9/11 in this work. Trauma fiction's characteristics are briefly discussed here in order to identify those that appear in Hamid's book and reveal issues with one's own identity while also seeking solutions to existential questions. For example, this research deals with problems such as American imperialism, the link between East and West, biases that control American society, and internal reform