Abstract
Pakistani fiction in English, in recent times, has been re- signified and re-contextualized by the forces of the global
imaginary, in particular by the authors residing in various parts
of the globe, and the national imaginary seems to have been
eclipsed or over-shadowed by the global capitalist/imperial
forces as well as by the global Islamic discourses. Mohsin
Hamid, in “The Reluctant Fundamentalist” (2007), draws
parallels between the forces of global capitalist fundamentalism
and global religious neofundamentalism to highlight the impact
of global imaginary on contemporary Pakistani fiction and also
to bring to the fore the fundamentalism inherent in both global
discourses. This paper, using Lacanian notion of identification
along with Valante’s “The Imaginary Symbolic” (2003) and
Roy’s “Neofundamentalism” (2004),probes the process of
protagonist’s identification(s) within the framework of global
imaginary. Through the study of identificatory relationships,
this paper foregrounds the shift in contemporary Pakistani
fiction from postcolonial epistemology to terrorist ontology
Munazzah Rabbani, Dr. Naveed Ahmad. (2020) The Global Imaginary and Contemporary Pakistani Fiction: A Study of Global Capitalist Fundamentalism and Terrorist Ontology in Mohsin Hamid’s “The Reluctant Fundamentalist”, Pakistan Social Sciences Review, Volume 4, Issue 2.
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