http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/temporal-mobility Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Thu, 14 May 2026 03:43:42 -0400 Thu, 14 May 2026 03:43:42 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1933/going-in-circles-temporal-mobility-and-migrant-agency-in-hamids-exit-west By Meghana L. Maddali - Escaping from your past is hopeless. However, under circular time, running from anything is completely useless––no matter what it is, it will always catch up to you. While Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West mainly depicts a world where well-defined geographical boundaries are replaced by magical portals, where any nation seems accessible to any migrant, the novel’s world is still grounded in circular time. So no matter how far a migrant travels, the past casts an oppressive shadow over them. In this essay, I demonstrate how Hamid offers his novel’s characters a means of survival... Fri, 14 Jan 2022 10:22 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1933/going-in-circles-temporal-mobility-and-migrant-agency-in-hamids-exit-west