GLOBALIZATION, CREOLE CULTURE AND CITIES IN THE RELUCTANT FUNDAMENTALIST

Year 2020, Volume: 4 Issue: 7, 211 - 218, 28.02.2020

Cengiz Karagöz

https://doi.org/10.30520/tjsosci.667210

Abstract

Globalization is one of the most discussed issues as a mobility which has world-wide effects nearly on all of the world nations. As soon as globalization has emerged and been discussed for several decades, local cultures and creole cultures have also been studied as a result of controversies on interaction between globalization and localization. Mohsin Hamid’s fiction can be examined through the global and local cultures which cannot be separated from identities of individuals and cities that seem to be the basic carriers of cultural values. In The Reluctant Fundamentalist, he deals with the conception of creole culture and dilemma of a Pakistani immigrant in America and also changing milieu of both New York and Lahore in which globalization enters a contesting process with the local structures. Conceivably believing that there is not any obvious line between the global and the local spheres, the writer displays cultural consequences of globalization which do not signify any homogenization for cultural identities of cities and individuals.

Keywords

Mohsin Hamid, Globalization, Creole Culture, Global, Local, Global Cities

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