American Systematic Violence as an Imputes of Muslim Oppression in Home Boy by H.M. Naqvi

The contemporary British-born Pakistani author H.M. Naqvi (b. 1973) has written two novels. His first novel, Home Boy (2009), narrates the socio-cultural dilemma of the Muslim character Chuck and how the American society scents him as a lower individual in post9/11 attacks. This study focuses on the oppression of Muslim minority characters in American society, as I assume that America is reflective of the violent society, which is an essential problem to the oppression of Muslims in the selected novel. Using textual analysis methodology, I examine the depictions of Muslim minority characters by applying the concept of violence and its related critical insights of oppression by the American socio-feminist philosopher, Iris Marion Young. The objective of this study, thus, is to examine the author’s depictions of the American society as the violent society that oppresses the Muslim minority characters in the selected novel. The findings lie in demonstrating the Muslim characters’ oppressed state as a signifying factor of their vulnerable position amidst the violent American society.