Changez’s Pakistan lectures double as a tactic to unsettle his American listener
Evidence
This is one way to understand the frequent awkward insertions of sociological and historical information about Pakistan that dot the text; they may be for an uninitiated Western reader of the novel, but they can also be read as part of Changez’s strategy of instructing but also unsettling the intradiegetic listener, who has only a basic knowledge of the culture into which he has stumbled. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 913
Categorization
Category: Contrarian or Surprising Claims
- XREF: A transferable close-reading move for the reader: read didactic insertions as narrative strategy, not authorial convenience.