This paper advances feminist discourse in Pakistan by foregrounding the epistemology of performativity and third-space to ascertain the efficacy and workability of Muslim women’s agency. Such negotiated identity can bring about transformation in women’s gendered subjectivity. It argues that exclusive perspectives restrict and reduce Pakistani Muslim women’s agency and that negotiated identity built through performativity somewhere in a third-space is more agential, workable and socially accepted. By taking the ‘lived’ experiences of major and minor female characters in fiction as case studies, this paper argues that the subjectivity of Muslim women is interstitial, rather than exclusively religious or secular. Mohsin Hamid’s novel How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia presents a nuanced literary depiction of the Muslim female subject position. This paper, however, aims to examine and foreground the agentive efficacy of subjectivity, which is neither exclusively secular nor religious.
This Study Guide consists of approximately 32 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia. Muslim female subjectivity in Pakistan has mostly been defined through the dualistic perspectives of secular and religious standpoints. How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia Themes & Motifs.
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