Mixed-heritage second-generation characters embody crossed postcolonial histories

Evidence

International connections take on flesh-and-blood form in the second generation. Raza is half-Japanese and half-Pakistani (his father, Sajjad, having had to shed the status of an Indian Muslim to take up residence in Karachi on the other side of the new border). Harry Burton is the product of a German mother and an English father but eventually becomes an American and, as a spy and subsequently a private-security operative, a gatekeeper of U.S. interests and a functionary of neocolonialism. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 423

Categorization

• XREF: The half-Japanese half-Pakistani Raza and the international-security Harry echo The Reluctant Fundamentalist’s Changez, another educated outsider who becomes entangled with US security power. — connects to: Characters divide between connecting across past and present or settling into patriotic complacency — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 423; Late-modern belonging draws on fragmented traces of several cultural languages; Second-generation diaspora identity is forged through ironic performance of authentic practices — Neda Maghbouleh, The Limits of Whiteness: Iranian…, 508
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Characters divide between connecting across past and present or settling into patriotic complacency — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 423; Late-modern belonging draws on fragmented traces of several cultural languages; Second-generation diaspora identity is forged through ironic performance of authentic practices — Neda Maghbouleh, The Limits of Whiteness: Iranian…, 508