Under Western Eyes: A Critical Consideration of Fictitious Muslim Stereotyping in English Fiction
English fiction pertaining to the British rule in India marked Indian Muslims intovisibility through the portrayal of their stable stereotypical identity, and since its publication, A Passage to India has gained the status of authentic imagining of Muslims asconservative religious ‘Other’ of the West. As such, they are analyzing this text as an instance ofcolonial fixity necessitates the identification and consideration of those discursive strategies used bythe text for the projection of abrasive Muslim images. The focus of this paper is to critically approachA Passage to India through the application of Fairclough’s threedimensional model so as to validate the claim of stereotypicalrepresentation of Muslims in India during colonial rule. Largely amatter of despotic manipulation within the text, the narrator doteson the anecdotal treatment of Muslim characters with a purpose tojustify. By adhering to colonial discursive binarism, this noveldepicts colonized Muslims as dehumanized and caricatured othersin essentialist terms by shelving their political, historical andcontextual identification.
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Colonial Discourse, Foreground, Image Construction, Stereotypical Representation, Colonized Muslims
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(1) Kanwal Zahra
Assistant Professor, Centre for Languages and Translation Studies, University of Gujrat, Punjab, Pakistan.
(2) Aisha Jadoon
Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities, COMSATS University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
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APA : Zahra, K., & Jadoon, A. (2019). Under Western Eyes: A Critical Consideration of Fictitious Muslim Stereotyping in English Fiction. Global Social Sciences Review, IV(III), 441-450. https://doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2019(IV-III).55
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CHICAGO : Zahra, Kanwal, and Aisha Jadoon. 2019. "Under Western Eyes: A Critical Consideration of Fictitious Muslim Stereotyping in English Fiction." Global Social Sciences Review, IV (III): 441-450 doi: 10.31703/gssr.2019(IV-III).55
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HARVARD : ZAHRA, K. & JADOON, A. 2019. Under Western Eyes: A Critical Consideration of Fictitious Muslim Stereotyping in English Fiction. Global Social Sciences Review, IV, 441-450.
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TURABIAN : Zahra, Kanwal, and Aisha Jadoon. "Under Western Eyes: A Critical Consideration of Fictitious Muslim Stereotyping in English Fiction." Global Social Sciences Review IV, no. III (2019): 441-450. https://doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2019(IV-III).55