Hybridity and Identity Crisis in ‚The Reluctant Fundamentalist‘ by Mohsin Hamid

Wissenschaftlicher Aufsatz aus dem Jahr 2013 im Fachbereich Soziologie – Individuum, Gruppe, Gesellschaft, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: The focus of this research paper is to stimulate as well as evoke the study of theoretical underpinning of hybridity and identity crisis in The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid. In addition, the research also draws upon Homi K Bhabhas’s concept of hybridity to trace their connection.The findings of this research throw light upon the interwoven pattern of hybridity and identity crisis. Thus, novelists exposed and expressed the conditions of identity Crises that emerged in postcolonial period. According to Oxford English dictionary, identity is defined as The identification of an individual or a group or a nation in postcolonial terms as one notice easily is linked to the ‚other‘, that means they recognize themselves ‚us‘ with the existence of the ‚other‘. Otherness is a feature to recognize identity in postcolonial era in which also means it is twofold, ‚both identity and difference, so that every other, every different than and excluded by is dialectically created and includes the values and meaning of the colonizing culture even as it rejects its power to define‘.