Globalization and Neo-colonialism: A Postcolonial Perspective to Mohammed Hanif’s Red Birds

Abstract

This article explores Mohammed Hanif’s Red Birds (2018) in terms of globalization as an enterprise of neo-colonialism through a postcolonial perspective. This research project aims to reveal how globalization extends colonial legacies, reinforcing economic, cultural and political dominance over marginalized post-colonial societies. This study will apply post-colonial theory, particularly drawing from the works of Gayatry Chakravorty Spivak, Homi K. Bhabha, Frantz Fanon and Edward Said, to examine neo-colonialism in globalization, narrative resistance and subalternity as represented in the novel. Through a close reading of the text, this study uncovers the ways in which Hanif presents the struggles of the characters against colonialism. The study reveals how globalization is portrayed through the characters as a neo-colonial strategy meant to sustain economic, cultural and political dominance. The findings aim to expose the power dynamics of neo-colonialism, the urgency of decolonizing globalization and reclaiming local agency. This study will contribute to the role of globalization in perpetuating neo-colonialism through cultural, economic, and political dominance, especially in post-colonial nations.