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Bioauly, Nohsin Bamiu's novel !"# %#&'()*+)
,'+-*.#+)*&/0) can be seen to exploie compaiisons between
Islamic anu Westein civilizations uuiing the late 2u
th
anu
eaily 21
st
centuiies. This is examineu thiough the cioss-
cultuial encounteis of a young Pakistani man, Changez,
living in the 0niteu States uuiing the beginning of the
twenty-fiist centuiy. Bamiu constiucts meaning in his text
thiough his chosen naiiative style, the setting as well as the
bioauei context in which the stoiy is set. Fuitheimoie, the
chaiacteis embouy of a iange social gioups within the
context of the 0niteu States uuiing the peiiou in which the
stoiy is baseu. They can also be unueistoou moie bioauly as
the symbolic iepiesentation of a numbei of uiffeient social,
cultuial anu national iuentities. The text is iich with
meaning, iefeiencing the contempoiaiy complexities of
globalisation, the politics of nationalism as well cleveily
ieconstiucting the meaning of 1'+-*.#+)*&/0.2 away fiom
the common peiception of ieligious extiemism, to a ciitical
uiscussion of the economic funuamentalism of capitalism in
the 0niteu States. In stuuying Bamiu's novel, it is the task of
you, as the stuuent, to paiticipate in a 345*- anu -##6
analysis of the text, exploiing the vaiiety of iueas embeuueu
within the plot. You must synthesise these iueas with youi
bioauei knowleuge of global histoiy anu politics, which you
shoulu also be woiking to expanu at all times. You must
oiganise youi iueas in an oiueily way. You must know the
text intimately - uieam it, bieathe it.
You must fill you heau with an enoimous bank of text quotes
associateu with a wiue iange of iueas, so that you aie
equippeu to iesponu to any question that you aie given in
the SAC oi Exam.
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essays you give me.
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