![]() ![]() The paper concludes by proposing that by being suspended in a realm of possibility, the reader is reconnected to the possible modes of resistance to the totalising effects of terror from both external and internal forces. Through the staging of a mimetic standoff at the culmination of a monologue underscored by the perpetual creation of "suspense effects", The Reluctant Fundamentalist locates the true "terror" in the anticipation for bloody resolution, an anticipation rooted in the blurring of the real and the imaginary in the terrible spectacle. ![]() It draws out the structural violence inherent in such a system and paints the portrait of a man humiliated by his own complicity. ![]() Providing a counterbalance to the one-sided and monumentalising tendencies of news media and American public rhetoric, the novel resituates the events of 9/11 in a wider context of historical violence and exposes the neo-imperialist features of American ideology in a globalized world. This unpublished master's degree paper examines how the reader is both implicated in the invisible violence from which the novel derives its energy and denied the spectacle of terror in the disavowal of narrative closure. ![]()
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