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You Sell Me Out: Representation of Peripheral Pakistan in Daniyal Mueenuddin’s In Other Rooms, Other Wonders
Abstract
This paper endeavours to look at the cultural representation of rural Pakistani in Daniyal Mueenuddin’s seminal work In Other Rooms, Other Wonders (2009). Taking the postcolonial framework given by Edward Said and more recently by Graham Huggan and Sarah Brouillette, I argue that this particular work is an instance of global commodification of cultural difference and exchange due to its re-orientalist tendencies. The cultural otherness, so portrayed, becomes an object for alterity industry in which writers participate consciously or unconsciously. Mueenuddin’s interviews are used to further nuance the readings of this collection of short stories and his status as a representative Pakistani author to address the issues of being cultural sell-out, different reception in different markets with a particular focus on the Western market and what constitutes ‘authentic’ in contemporary postcolonial world.
Authors
Dr. Barirah Nazir
Lecturer, Department of English, University of Sargodha, Punjab, Pakistan
Dr. Zahida Hussain
Assistant Professor, Department of English, Government College Women University, Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan
Dr. Zahoor Hussain
Assistant Professor, Department of English, BZU Layyah Campus, Punjab, Pakistan
Keywords
Brand Pakistan, Cultural Otherness, In Other Rooms, Other Wonders, Pakistani English Fiction