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“You inside me inside you”: Reading the Other in Self in How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia

[Abstract] Moshin Hamid’s How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia almost announces itself to be a parody of self-help literature and has been duly discussed as such. On the other hand, linguists and narratologists have been interested in the novel’s peculiar use of the second-person narration. I argue that the second-person narration is key to understanding the specific way How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia undermines the popular understanding of the self and recognizes the others at whose expense the self is constructed. Furthermore, by positioning the reader as a Western person, Hamid brings to the fore the expansive and intricate relationships that are formed yet often neglected in the age of global capitalism.