Critics- TRF

Question 1

a)What does Sonia McKay say about hostility in a post 9/11 world and b) what point in TRF does this link too?

Answer 1

a)‘In a post 9/11 world, migrants who are visibly different experience greater levels of hostility.’

b) After 9/11 when he returns from Lahore, he does not shave his beard and he becomes “overnight a subject of whispers and stares” and his friend Wainwright says “Jerk chicken is common where I come from”… “but i dont smear it all over my face”

Question 2

What does Morton say about the presentation of Pakistani culture in TRF?

Answer 2

-‘representation of Pakistani culture to an implied Western reader seeks to contest the West’s framing of Pakistan as a rogue state of terrorists and Islamic Fundamentalists.’

Question 3

What does Leerom Medvoi say about Changez and Erica’s relationship?

Answer 3

-‘(Am)Erica’ becomes an ‘allegorical figure’ who ‘personifies the narrator’s romantic national investments, his ill-fated love affair with American life.’

Question 4

What does Bounar Fateh state about Changez and Erica’s relationship

Answer 4

‘AmErica is a double entendre, which symbolises Changez’s unrequited love for both a country and a woman… to allegorise … the disintegration of his American Dream. “

Question 5

What does Zindziuviene state about Hamid? 2

Answer 5

1)”Hamid explores the deterioration of the American Dream”

Question 6

What does Hamid say about Islam and West’s views on Islamic people?

Answer 6

1) “Islam is not a monolith”
2)”Islamophobia represents a refusal to acknowledge these variations, to acknowledge individual humanities, a desire to paint members of a perceived group with the same brush.”

Question 7

What does Avirup Ghosh say about Changez and Erica’s failed attempts at sex?

Answer 7

“Their initial difficulty in having sex metaphorically suggests Changez’s inability to “penetrate” a culture that is not his

Question 8

What does Avriup Ghosh say is the reason Erica is attracted to Changez?

Answer 8

“exotic otherness”