Aamer Hussein's The Cloud Messenger: A Migratory Bird's Co-Existence in a Multicultural World
This article explores the transcultural contact zone in Aamer Hussein’s fiction through Pratt's concept of autoethnography in the cultural contact zone. Hussein presents residents of a multicultural world, coexisting with people of diverse nationalities and cultural backgrounds. The social positioning of his characters as a minority cultural group has been theorized through Kymlika’s description of social classes. Hussein portrays the identity issues of his characters in the multicultural, cosmopolitan world. His characters develop connections with their current habitus and their previous home to discover ways to translate their cultural identity to their mainstream society. Cultural traits, modes of life, and the nature of cross-cultural relationships of the characters have been explored through common grounds proposed by Pratt and Krupat in their theories of ethnography and ethnocentricism respectively.
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Multiculturalism, Contact Zone, Ethnocriticism, Autoethnography, Pakistani Literature in English
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(1) Amara Javed
PhD Scholar, Department of English, Government College University Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan
(2) Ghulam Murtaza
Professor, Department of English, Government College University Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan.
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APA : Javed, A., & Murtaza, G. (2023). Aamer Hussein's The Cloud Messenger: A Migratory Bird's Co-Existence in a Multicultural World. Global Language Review, VIII(I), 325-333. https://doi.org/10.31703/glr.2023(VIII-I).30
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CHICAGO : Javed, Amara, and Ghulam Murtaza. 2023. "Aamer Hussein's The Cloud Messenger: A Migratory Bird's Co-Existence in a Multicultural World." Global Language Review, VIII (I): 325-333 doi: 10.31703/glr.2023(VIII-I).30
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HARVARD : JAVED, A. & MURTAZA, G. 2023. Aamer Hussein's The Cloud Messenger: A Migratory Bird's Co-Existence in a Multicultural World. Global Language Review, VIII, 325-333.
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MHRA : Javed, Amara, and Ghulam Murtaza. 2023. "Aamer Hussein's The Cloud Messenger: A Migratory Bird's Co-Existence in a Multicultural World." Global Language Review, VIII: 325-333
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MLA : Javed, Amara, and Ghulam Murtaza. "Aamer Hussein's The Cloud Messenger: A Migratory Bird's Co-Existence in a Multicultural World." Global Language Review, VIII.I (2023): 325-333 Print.
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OXFORD : Javed, Amara and Murtaza, Ghulam (2023), "Aamer Hussein's The Cloud Messenger: A Migratory Bird's Co-Existence in a Multicultural World", Global Language Review, VIII (I), 325-333
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TURABIAN : Javed, Amara, and Ghulam Murtaza. "Aamer Hussein's The Cloud Messenger: A Migratory Bird's Co-Existence in a Multicultural World." Global Language Review VIII, no. I (2023): 325-333. https://doi.org/10.31703/glr.2023(VIII-I).30