Dr. Binod Paudyal's Publication in "Teaching South Asian Anglophone Diasporic Literature"
Dr. Binod Paudyal, AAST Senior Lecturer, contributed a chapter in Teaching South Asian Anglophone Diasporic Literature, published by the Modern Language Association. In this chapter, Dr. Paudyal discusses his teaching approach to Mohsin Hamid's novel, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, in ethnic studies courses, exploring how the novel offers a theoretical and pedagogical framework for understanding the identity politics and exclusionary ideologies of the contemporary United States. His primary goal in this chapter is not only to show how South Asian diasporic literary writers like Hamid challenge the idea about racialization of Muslims, about xenophobia, but also to show how we as teachers of ethnic studies can subsequently use the classroom as a space for social transformation and imagining more just ways of life.