%0 Journal Article
%T Beyond economic globalization in Mohsin Hamid¡¯s How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia: The false promise of self
%A Liliana M. Naydan
%J The Journal of Commonwealth Literature
%@ 1741-6442
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0021989416632565
%X This article argues that Mohsin Hamid¡¯s How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia functions as a strategic parody of a self-help book that comments on economic globalization¡¯s failures and in turn illustrates the violence that it produces. Although globalization is detrimental to individuals and relatively inescapable within the world of Hamid¡¯s text, opportunities for reading creatively can counter its detriments. Hence, creative ways of reading provide alternatives to buying into the globalized and ever-globalizing capitalist system ¡ª alternatives that Hamid suggests his readers should embrace
%K Mohsin Hamid
%K globalization
%K self-help
%K Sufism
%K reading
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0021989416632565