在莫欣．哈密2007年出版的《拉合爾茶館的陌生人》中，作者闡述了巴基斯坦裔的主角成吉思旅居美國的離散經驗。小說展現外國移民在現代美國社會的困境。本論文旨在探討成吉思，透過移民經驗的困境，展開一場尋家之旅，歷經成為種族他者的創傷，最後選擇巴基斯坦為他的家。
本論文分成兩個部分，第一章探討離散族群對家的概念。檢視小說中後殖民時期的美國現代社會對外來族群的歧視，進而探究成吉思對家的概念之改變。成吉思經過重重身分認同危機，直到九一一事件發生後，才找到值得他選擇的身分。本論文第一章前半部藉由霍米‧巴巴的擬態(Mimicry)理論探討成吉思的種族身分認同；後半部會特別聚焦於社會階級議題來分析成吉思的社經身分認同。第二章則經由鄭安玲的種族憂鬱(Racial Melancholia)理論分析成吉思與艾瑞卡。了解成吉思與艾瑞卡的創傷，筆者認為這兩個角色都無法揮別白的理想(Ideal of whiteness)而患有種族憂鬱。艾瑞卡對於成吉思若即若離的態度，更造成他自我認同的影響，由此可見人與人之間容易造成不可避免的傷害。本論文認為，哈密主張人類對陌生的環境與接觸都具相當的脆弱性。

In Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007), Hamid depicts the diasporic life of a Pakistani man in the United States which shows the immigrants’ difficulties of being a racial other. The thesis argues that Changez finally chooses to be affiliated with Pakistani identity and return home to Pakistan as a solution for his unhomeliness in the United States through his journey of home-searching with his trauma of being a racialized other.
The thesis is divided into two main chapters. Chapter One focuses on the notion of home for people in diaspora, which changes through the experience of immigration. In the former part of Chapter One, the formation of Changez’s identity is “almost the same but not quite” an American, in Homi Bhabha’s theory of mimicry. The latter part of Chapter One examines how Changez emphasizes his class superiority throughout the novel. An analysis of the psyche of Erica and Changez presents their racial melancholia in Chapter Two, based on Anne Anlin Cheng’s book The Melancholy of Race in which she re-examines Freud’s notion of melancholia and mourning. Both Changez and Erica suffer from racial melancholia: they cannot get over the loss because they want to preserve the superiority of whiteness. By failing to get over the loss of whiteness, they could assure their dominated social status in the United States. In his relationship with Erica, Changez’s self-identification is shaped through her lukewarm presence, which further shows the inevitable harm of social status to every human-being living in the same society. Hamid aims to make readers understand not only that racialized others are vulnerable, but that all humans, no matter what their identities are, are vulnerable to the uncertainty and mutual suspicion.

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