What is it about?
This article explains that the Pakistanis who immigrated to America and settled there, have experiences of alienation and displacement in post 9/11 America. But despite being excluded they are also integrated in various ways in American soceity.therefore, they occupy a liminal or in-between cultural position between America and Pakistan.
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Why is it important?
It solves the problems of dual belonging and representation, where an American-Pakistani maintain a multivalent cultural relationship with two countries.
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The article translates some of my own personal experiences as an expat Pakistani living outside Pakistan yet maintaining a strong bond with the home country.
Quratulain Shirazi
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This page is a summary of: Ambivalent identities and liminal spaces: reconfiguration of national and diasporic identity in Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist, South Asian Diaspora, November 2017, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/19438192.2017.1396013.
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