Pakistan-info insertions in the novel double as tools to unsettle the Western 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

• XREF: This is exactly the hinge the reader wants — a specific technique (informational insertions serving a dialogic rather than expository function) to apply when reading Hamid and Naqvi as evidence.