CAPITALISTIC INFLUENCE ON IDENTITY AND CULTURE OF IMMIGRANTS: A POSTMODERN STUDY OF MOHSIN HAMID’S EXIT WEST(2017)

Abstract

Identity and culture are core and fundamental elements of life in any living society in which the mental relief and the turbulence are inbuilt phenomenon. Exit West (2017) by Mohsin Hamid is a true illustration of postmodernism in which the immigrants have to live under the foreign culture. The present study is qualitative in approach which has analyzed the elements of postmodernism in Exit West (2017) by Mohsin Hamid under the theoretical framework of Harvey (1990) and Jameson (1998) to manipulate the elements of culture, identity and ethnicity. In current study textual analysis is made on the basis of proposed theory of Harvey (1990) and Jameson (1998) which respectively mentions the global spread of technology to change the minds of people and global capitalistic thoughts are being provoked in the west which have absorbed in all the cultures but dominate in the western culture only. The results of the study show that the immigrants have to live under mental turbulence. The immigrants suffer most for their culture and to some extent lost it but they become able to preserve their identity in most cases.