Mohsin Hamid Engages the World in The Reluctant Fundamentalist: "An Island on an Island," Worlds in Miniature and "Fiction" in the Making

The Reluctant Fundamentalist proves vitally engaged in the concerns of the mind and its passages reveal a struggle with difficulties of a sort that make anxiety seem an innocuous euphemism or outdated scholarly endeavor, which inevitably veers the reader's attention away from their importance i...

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Veröffentlicht in:Arab Studies Quarterly. - Pluto Journals. - 41(2019), 4, Seite 271-297
1. Verfasser: Madiou, Mohamed Salah Eddine (VerfasserIn)
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2019
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Arab Studies Quarterly
Schlagworte:The Reluctant Fundamentalist Edward Said America 9/11 Camus's La chute historiographic metafiction beginnings
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