Choose ONE of the following two options:
- Make an argument about Hamid’s How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia that approaches the
novel from the perspective of postcolonial criticism. You must support your argument using the
following: 1) analyzed evidence from the novel, 2) Lois Tyson’s “Postcolonial Criticism,” and 3)
one other peer-reviewed source that you find on your own.
Example 1: An argument about how Hamid’s novel addresses the role and use of private
capital (wealth) according to a Western model, in a non-Western country.
Example 2: An argument about how Hamid’s novel uses narrative perspective to think
about neocolonialism in a global world.
Example 3: An argument about how Hamid’s novel presents the relationship between
environmental damage and wealth in “rising Asia.”