Daniyal Mueenuddin Talking Back

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Mihaela Mudure

Abstract

“Writing back”, the famous post-colonial strategy theorized by Ashcroft, Griffiths, and Tiffin, is not able enough to grasp the characteristics of Daniyal Mueenuddin’s literary discourse in his first book: the short story cycle In Other Rooms, Other Wonders. After an evaluation of the “talking back” formula and the re-writing formula, I have come to the conclusion that the former is a better tool in order to understand the modalities in which the American and the Pakistani cultures influenced Daniyal Mueenuddin’s literary personality, his way of talking back to the environments that shaped and in-formed his personality. Talking back to the world, Daniyal Mueenuddin proves to be a very significant personality of the Global South and of the world we live in, a world where cultures, individuals meet and talk to each other more than in any other previous age. Daniyal Mueenuddin’s writing is significant for the contemporary world conversation.

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Mudure, Mihaela. 2021. “Daniyal Mueenuddin Talking Back”. AMERICANA E-Journal of American Studies in Hungary 17 (1). https://iskolakultura.hu/index.php/americanaejournal/article/view/45460.
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Mihaela Mudure

Mihaela Mudure is professor at Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. She has been guest professor in Turkey and the Czech Republic and a member of the Beatrice Bain Research Group at the University of California at Berkeley (2015-2016). Dr. Mudure is interested in the British Enlightenment and the intersection between gender and ethnicity. Her publications include: Feminine (2000); Katherine Mansfield. Plucking the Nettle of Impressions (2000); Ethnic America (2008); Lecturi canadiene. Canadian Readings (2009). Dr. Mudure is also a versed translator from English and French into Romanian and from Romanian into English. Email: mmudure@yahoo.com