Author(s): Areeb Abbas Zaidi, Dr. Nilofer Shakir

Abstract: Pan-Asianism, civilization and the actuality of globalization is ideated in Hamid's Exit West in a postcolonial actuality. The paper explores this idea through an analysis of the novel in the light of nationalism, violence, civilization and its adjunct idea of identity in a globalized world fractured by late-stage migration. The examination of these ideas takes place through Asian and Western civilizations as two different and opposing thought processes/philosophies in context with the novel that ultimately shape an ideological stance of the socio-political implications in neo-coloniality.

Keywords: Pan-Asianism, postcoloniality, cultural theory, multiculturalism, violence, peace

Article Info: Received: 29 Jun 2026; Received in revised form: 27 Jul 2026; Accepted: 02 Aug 2026; Available online: 05 Aug 2026

DOI: 10.22161/ijels.114.38