TY - JOUR
T1 - Rethinking home and identity of Muslim diaspora in Shamsie’s home fire and Hamid’s exit west
AU - Rallie Rivaldy, Padel Muhamad
AU - Budiman, Manneke
AU - Gietty Tambunan, Shuri Mariasih
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by Universitas Indonesia’s research grant (PITMA B 2019) managed by DRPM UI/Indonesian Ministry of Research, Technology, and Higher Education’s Research Grant (PDUPT 2019).
Publisher Copyright:
© Common Ground Research Networks, Padel Muhamad Rallie Rivaldy, Manneke Budiman, Shuri Mariasih Gietty Tambunan, All Rights Reserved.
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Since 9/11, along with the rise and the collapse of Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL), identity proposition and the meaning of home toward global Muslim societies have become prominent issue among scholars. The complexities of these issues are represented in political and cultural realm as well as literary works of people from South Asian descent. Drawing upon Hall’s theory of identity (1990), Brah’s “Homing Desire” (1996), and Bhabha’s “Unhomely” (1992, 1994), this close-textual analysis investigates how Pakistani Muslim diasporic communities construct their identities and the meaning of home within two novels: “Home Fire” and “Exit West.” The discussions in this article show that both novels represent heterogeneity within home and identity construction of the Muslim diaspora. Through these representations, both novels problematize the notion of radicalism, blur the East/West binary, underscore knowledge on multifariousness within Islamic world, and offer inclusive transcultural contact zone as the concept of nation.
AB - Since 9/11, along with the rise and the collapse of Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL), identity proposition and the meaning of home toward global Muslim societies have become prominent issue among scholars. The complexities of these issues are represented in political and cultural realm as well as literary works of people from South Asian descent. Drawing upon Hall’s theory of identity (1990), Brah’s “Homing Desire” (1996), and Bhabha’s “Unhomely” (1992, 1994), this close-textual analysis investigates how Pakistani Muslim diasporic communities construct their identities and the meaning of home within two novels: “Home Fire” and “Exit West.” The discussions in this article show that both novels represent heterogeneity within home and identity construction of the Muslim diaspora. Through these representations, both novels problematize the notion of radicalism, blur the East/West binary, underscore knowledge on multifariousness within Islamic world, and offer inclusive transcultural contact zone as the concept of nation.
KW - Anglophone literature
KW - Diaspora
KW - Home
KW - Identity
KW - Muslim
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85090790638&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.18848/2327-7912/CGP/V18I01/27-38
DO - 10.18848/2327-7912/CGP/V18I01/27-38
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85090790638
SN - 2327-7912
VL - 18
SP - 27
EP - 38
JO - International Journal of Literary Humanities
JF - International Journal of Literary Humanities
IS - 1
ER -