Postmodern Fiction as a Co-Creation: Indeterminate Endings in Mohsin Hamid’s Fiction

Abstract

The focus of the present research is to find out how the endings of Hamid’s selected novels can be termed as indeterminants in accordance with Lyotard concept of postmodern fable.  In this way the present research finds its way in qualitative research. The present research incorporates Lyotard’s polemical essay Answering the Question: What is Postmodernism. The findings reveal that Mohsin Hamid’s almost all the novels remain either indeterminate or unconventional regarding the endings as in conformity with Lyotard’s view of paralogy. In accordance with Lyotard’s idea, Hamid’s novels let the reader superseded by something unimaginable. These endings neither verify nor falsify. Readers are free to invent, discover and recreate to supply the endings according to their own will. In this way it can be stated that in these novels the very boundary between reader and writer is blurred. These novels pose questions instead of providing answers. The readers are encouraged to consider the questions that the novels pose.