Abstract
The paper is an attempt to offer textual readings of two works by Pakistani writers: Mohsin
Hamid‘s The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Musharaf Ali Farooqi‘s Between Clay and Dust. It
offers readings of these texts from the perspective of neoliberalism, especially with an accent on
epistemological factors. It explains how as a zeitgeist of our times, neoliberalism controls,
dominates and trespasses personal domains, favours the moneyed class and necessitates an
epistemology that governs relationships within a human society, whether it is the first world i.e.
the US or a South Asian city. Educational and cultural institutions, whether in the US or in
Pakistan, the paper argues, are meaningful, according to the neoliberal epistemology, as long as
they have their monetary or exchange value
Zakia Shazeb, Shahzeb Khan. (2017) Neoliberal Epistemology in Pakistani Anglophone Fiction, South Asian Studies, Volume 32, Issue 2.
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