Resisting melancholic whiteness in Mohsin Hamid’s The Last White Man
The Journal of Commonwealth Literature
Published online on February 04, 2026
Abstract
Literature, Critique, and Empire Today, Volume 61, Issue 1, Page 112-127, March 2026.
This article examines the loss of whiteness in Mohsin Hamid’sThe Last White Man(2022), in which the white population of an unspecified Euro-American nation turns non-white. It situates the novel in a tradition of speculative political and cultural ...
This article examines the loss of whiteness in Mohsin Hamid’sThe Last White Man(2022), in which the white population of an unspecified Euro-American nation turns non-white. It situates the novel in a tradition of speculative political and cultural ...