“The idea of self in the land of self-help”: Globalization and a structure of feeling in Mohsin Hamid’s How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia

Abstract

Focusing on the novel, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, this paper examines Mohsin Hamid’s experimentation with narrative structure and the idea of the split self through the context of Frederic Jameson’s dialectic of the cultural and economic dimensions of globalization and David Harvey’s take on Postmodernism