Subalternity And Metanarrative In The Novel The Reluctant Fundamentalist By Mohsin Hamid

Abstract

This study is going to explore the novel The Reluctant Fundamentalist  by Mohsin Hamid through the lens of metanarrative, a concept propounded by Jean Francois Lyotard and subalternity. Changez, a Pakistani boy is the protagonist of the novel who has come to live in America. But after 9/11 he becomes disillusioned and leaves America and moves back to Pakistan. This paper will investigate Changez’s going against the metanarrative which is American Ideology. America’s announcement of ‘war on terror’ which led Muslim immigrants in delimma. As they lived their best life in America but after 9/11 their life became miserable and they resisted it. This paper also studies the elements of subalternity found in the narrative which is told in a dramatic monologue wherein Changez keeps on talking to American Agent.