Sökning: "The Reluctant Fundamentalist"

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1. 1. “Excuse me, sir, but may I be of assistance? Ah, I see I have alarmed you. Do not be frightened by my beard: I am a lover of America” : Highlighting bias in The Reluctant Fundamentalist with Positioning Theory, for the purpose of teaching students to critically assess narratives

   Uppsats för yrkesexamina på avancerad nivå, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

   Författare :Linus Bergström; [2020]
   Nyckelord :The Reluctant Fundamentalist; Positioning theory; Ethics; Narratives; Discourse; Bias; EFL classroom. Upper Secondary school;

   Sammanfattning : This paper sets out to analyze The Reluctant Fundamentalist by a narratological application of positioning theory with the aim of highlighting the bias of the main character. The paper argues that using said novel in the English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classroom in conjunction with positioning theory could result in an improved understanding of how language is used in different situations for different purposes, which in turn can teach students to critically assess narratives in any medium. LÄS MER

3. 2. The Evolution of Changez' Identity : Hybridity and Culture in Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist

   Kandidat-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

   Författare :Tove Hermansson; [2020]
   Nyckelord :hybridity; fractured identity; culture; orientalism; the East; the West; Pakistan; America;

   Sammanfattning : This essay explores the concept of hybridity and its relation to cultural identity in Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007). Changez' identity is analysed by using postcolonial theory and its notion of hybrid identities. LÄS MER

4. 3. Cosmopolitanism as an Antidote to American Nationalism in Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist

   Kandidat-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Författare :Serra Hughes; [2019]
   Nyckelord :cosmopolitanism; American nationalism; Mohsin Hamid; 9 11; AK Appiah;

   Sammanfattning : This essay explores how The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid offers a potential cosmopolitan antidote to the myths of American nationalism which allow the United States to pursue self-interested policies abroad that consequently deny the humanity of those who are seen as commodities or collateral damage. Using Richard T. LÄS MER

5. 4. Literature for the Intercultural Classroom : Discussing Ethnocentric Issues Using The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid

   Uppsats för yrkesexamina på grundnivå, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

   Författare :Robert Jönsson; [2015]
   Nyckelord :Postcolonialism; Religion; Multicultural Education;

   Sammanfattning : Abstract This essay takes as its starting point that the Swedish classroom often is an intercultural environment and that it is therefore important to address issues connected to ethnocentrism in it. In this essay I examine how the novel The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid can be used in schools to raise such ethnocentric issues. LÄS MER

7. 5. Vi och Dem : en analys av skapandet av "den Andre" i Den ovillige fundamentalisten och Pojken i randig pyjamas

   Kandidat-uppsats, Södertörns högskola/Institutionen för kultur och lärande

   Författare :Katja Vahedi; [2014]
   Nyckelord :Orientalism; the Other; Us and Them; Orientalism; den Andre; Vi och Dem;

   Sammanfattning : My paper, “Us and Them – an analysis of the creation of “the Other” in The Reluctant Fundamentalist and The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas”, aims to examine Mohsin Hamid´s and John Boyne´s novels from the years 2007 and 2008. The paper tries to answer the following questions: How is “the Other”and“Us and Them”created in the novels? And: What consequences does the thinking in terms of “the Other”and“Us and Them”lead to in the novels? The examination is done through the method of close reading and by applying the theory of Orientalism and Edward W. LÄS MER