Abstract

The paper explores the post-9/11 trauma and the reemergence of colonial discursive strategies as depicted in Home Boy (2010) by Hussain Muhammad Naqvi. The paper highlights the rising tensions within the American society and the colonial farce practiced by America on the Muslim immigrants after 9/11. By using the ideas of Jeoffery C. Alexander in his Trauma: A Social Theory (2012), the paper deconstructs the characters of Chuck, Jimbo and AC who were subjected to extensive interrogations and suffered the post-9/11 trauma the most. Naqvi, like other Anglophone Pakistani fiction writers, questions the construction of definition of a terrorist and the post-9/11 traumatic circumstances for the Muslim immigrants in America. 9/11 brought trauma not only for the white Americans but also for other Diaspora communities, specially the Muslims, settled within America. It left permanent marks upon their group consciousness and transformed their future identity in irrevocable ways. The paper further determines the role of American media and political discourse in
relegating the Muslims to the marginalized status.