Multiculturalism As Ideology: Textual Analysis Of The Novel Thinner Than Skin By Uzma Aslam Khan

Abstract

This study aims at showing the way of justice by reviewing and analyzing the novel THINNER THAN SKIN of Uzma Aslam Khan (2012), an election representative of Pakistani diasporic fiction written in the context of multiculturalism. The research focuses on how hybrid identity (of the Pakistani target affected in the novels) changes in the context of multicultural identities. The novel discusses diverse and divisive identities that can transform individuals. In contrast to a wave of traumatic, fearful, obsessive-compulsive, Islamophobic, Orientalism, and similar mythological themes, the novel seeks to present a world of chaos with multiple and conflicting identities. Post-colonial theory, characterized by cultural hybridity, has been established as a theoretical framework. However, the researcher geographically and ideologically, geographically and ideologically, investigates and supports the strategy of deviating from and detaching from the United States. Ideologists and many fiction writers have discussed engagement and reconciliation between East and West, while the current discourse in selected texts largely reiterates the friendship for dependence and autonomy.