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Both novel and film are informed by the post-9\/11 distrust of the Muslim other. Mohsin Hamid\u2019s novel was begun before 9\/11 and published seven years later, in 2007; Mira Nair\u2019s film adaptation followed in 2012, with a premiere at the Venice Film Festival (as the opening film) and the Toronto Film Festival. Ostensibly more conciliatory than Hamid\u2019s novel, Nair\u2019s film adaptation attempts to build bridges, stressing the tragedy of cultural suspicion and mistrust that besets the relationships between Pakistan and the US, endeavouring to open and facilitate dialogue. Despite utilizing spaces of ambiguity to expose the dangers of binary thinking, both novel and film ultimately demonstrate that representations are still unable to escape the loop of orientalism and re-orientalism, highlighting the tension of how East and West continue as locked into this circular mode of relational identity. <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1177\/0021989416631791","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2016,3,10]],"date-time":"2016-03-10T03:09:13Z","timestamp":1457579353000},"page":"78-91","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/sage-journals-update-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":5,"title":["Post-9\/11 re-orientalism: Confrontation and conciliation in Mohsin Hamid\u2019s and Mira Nair\u2019s <i>The Reluctant Fundamentalist<\/i>"],"prefix":"10.1177","volume":"53","author":[{"given":"Lisa","family":"Lau","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Keele University, UK"}]},{"given":"Ana Cristina","family":"Mendes","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal"}]}],"member":"179","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2016,3,9]]},"reference":[{"key":"bibr1-0021989416631791","volume-title":"The Guardian Review Book of Short Stories","author":"Allardice L","year":"2011"},{"key":"bibr2-0021989416631791","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1080\/10436928.2010.523612"},{"key":"bibr3-0021989416631791","volume-title":"America","author":"Baudrillard J","year":"1989"},{"key":"bibr4-0021989416631791","volume-title":"The Rites of Assent: Transformations in the Symbolic Construction of America","author":"Bercovich S","year":"1993"},{"key":"bibr5-0021989416631791","unstructured":"Blankenship M (2007) Interview with Mohsin Hamid. 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