MY SON, THE FANATIC

MY SON, THE FANATIC



MY SON, THE FANATIC

Thesis statement

Hanif Kureishi's “My Son the Fanatic” can be viewed as a remarkably prescient and indeed prophetic examination of home-grown radicalism and extremism.

Introduction

Hanif Kureishi's “My Son the Fanatic” is a article of two vying and irreconcilable ideals: Parvez's, in his illusion of supplying for his family and putting his child through school, and Ali's, in the passion and zeal of a furiously anti-Western damage of Islam. Both men have likewise incompatible notions of Britain and 'Brutishness': for Parvez, Britain is both the illusion of the flawless life and the unchanging ...