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@article{Sonia Bibi_Muhammad Anwar_Dr Muhammad Nawaz_Iftikhar Ali_2026, title={Language, Power, and Racial Identity in Mohsin Hamid’s The Last White Man: A Critical Discourse Analysis}, volume={5}, url={https://www.assajournal.com/index.php/36/article/view/1363}, abstractNote={<p><em>This study applies Norman Fairclough’s Three-Dimensional Model of Critical Discourse Analysis to examine how language constructs and negotiates power and racial identity in Mohsin Hamid’s The Last White Man (2022). Adopting a qualitative approach, the analysis focuses on selected textual excerpts to identify key linguistic features such as evaluative lexical choices, imagery, and narrative framing across textual, discursive, and social dimensions. The findings reveal that racial transformation in the novel is linguistically mediated through patterns of negative evaluation, spatial metaphor, and shifting narrative perspective, which contribute to the representation of whiteness as normative and privilege-bearing, while blackness is associated with marginalization and insecurity. The study demonstrates that identity is portrayed as fluid and socially constructed, with language functioning as an ideological mechanism that shapes perception, reinforces power hierarchies, and normalizes exclusion. By foregrounding systematic linguistic analysis rather than thematic interpretation, the research highlights the role of literary discourse as a site where dominant racial ideologies are both reproduced and contested.</em></p> <p><strong><em>Keywords:</em></strong> <em>Critical Discourse Analysis, Language, Power, Racial Identity, Fairclough, Mohsin Hamid</em></p> <p><em>https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18496815</em></p>}, number={01}, journal={`}, author={Sonia Bibi and Muhammad Anwar and Dr Muhammad Nawaz and Iftikhar Ali}, year={2026}, month={Feb.}, pages={730–735} }