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Tainted Through Transfer: Dis/connective Residues in Mohsin Hamid's Contaminated Fiction

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dc.contributor.advisorTaylor, Richard C., 1956-
dc.contributor.authorOcheltree, Diana Elisse
dc.contributor.departmentEnglish
dc.date.accessioned2017-08-09T15:54:05Z
dc.date.available2017-08-09T15:54:05Z
dc.date.created2017-08
dc.date.issued2017-06-22
dc.date.submittedAugust 2017
dc.date.updated2017-08-07T21:51:15Z
dc.degree.departmentEnglish
dc.degree.disciplineMA-English
dc.degree.grantorEast Carolina University
dc.degree.levelMasters
dc.degree.nameM.A.
dc.description.abstractGiven the profusion of negative terminology ascribed to non-Western migrants generally, coupled with Mohsin Hamid's extensive and recurring implementation of ecological and biological collapse in his first three published novels, this thesis will foreground scientific concepts which undermine Eastern representation. I argue that while Hamid illustrates real-world ecological, biological, political, and ideological contamination, he does so by employing an historic use of metaphors and imagery which highlight an inevitably poisoned, infected, or contagious Pakistani people. This emotionally inciting device ultimately reduces his characters' vitality and agency, thereby transferring a tainted impression onto his Western readers, one which denies visions of cultural and political equality between the East and West. His work problematically rearticulates a disconnected, ethnically subordinate image of Pakistani society at a time when cultural sensitivity and global connectivity is paramount to peaceful multicultural and international relations.
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10342/6351
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherEast Carolina University
dc.subjectPakistani literary representation
dc.subjectcultural permeability
dc.subject.lcshHamid, Mohsin, 1971-, Moth smoke.
dc.subject.lcshHamid, Mohsin, 1971-, How to get filthy rich in rising Asia.
dc.subject.lcshHamid, Mohsin, 1971-, Reluctant fundamentalist.
dc.subject.lcshMimesis in literature
dc.subject.lcshMetaphor in literature
dc.subject.lcshPakistani literature--History and criticism
dc.titleTainted Through Transfer: Dis/connective Residues in Mohsin Hamid's Contaminated Fiction
dc.typeMaster's Thesis
dc.type.materialtext

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