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- Reading Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist for Risk and Space
Reading Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist for Risk and Space
Authors : Şemsettin Tabur
Pages : 485-500
Doi:10.31465/eeder.1347487
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Publication Date : 2023-10-26
Article Type : Research
Abstract :The September 11 attacks on the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center have had catalytic, diverse effects on both national and global scales. The present study will analyze Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist as a 9/11 narrative exploring the implications of living in a society characterized by the securitization of everyday lives, mediatized terrorism, and heightened senses of uncertainty, anxiety, and aggressive patriotism. To this end, it will be examined how competing riskscapes produced multifariously in the aftermath of 9/11 are represented in the novel. The novel foregrounds both risk and space. The protagonist’s physical and symbolic mobility reveal the intricacies of living in the post-9/11 world that are often overlooked in institutionalized risk discourses. The novel which takes in a large narrative space including cities such as New York, Manila, Lahore, and Valparaiso will be examined from the critical perspectives of risk and space, which, in turn, will shed light on the signigicance of various roles played py individual and social processes in the definition and experience of risks of various sorts.Keywords : fundamentalizm, mekân, risk, 9/11 anlatısı, riskscape, risk anlatısı