POST-HUMAN IDENTITY AND THE COLLAPSE OF WHITENESS: AN ANALYSIS OF HAMID'S THE LAST WHITE MAN

Abstract

This study interprets the color discrimination and identity change in Mohsin Hamid's Novel The Last White Man (2022) through the lens of post-humanism. The Novel portrays one man whose color suddenly changes. This also presents a psychological impact when his identity changes. This research examines how identity is changeable and uncertain. It also explores how people face discrimination based on their color and how whites have power, privilege, and superiority rather than blacks. This research also illustrates how power and privilege relate to whiteness, and when whiteness collapses, power also collapses. It also shows how privilege remains strong and how identities with power remain strong. The study examines how relationships develop through racial change. Change in racial identity also affects human relations. Post-humanism also explores new worlds and ethics. This research contributes to those people who face discrimination because of their color, who once had power, but after a change in identity, they lose their power. This research is unique in that it helps future researchers identify that everyone is equal in this universe, and that identity and power are not natural; they are socially constructed. This Novel is not only a fictional story, but it has a deep reality of the world, showing how humans are not the only essential or valuable thing in this world, and how other things are also important, and how things depend on technology, and how identity is not fixed, always in motion. And superiority and power that exist in society are not natural but are maintained by society.