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Towards a Poetics of Culture”: A New Historic Critique of Khaled Hosseini's Fiction
Ist Teil von
Journal of the Research Society of Pakistan, 2022-09, Vol.59 (3), p.112
Ort / Verlag
Lahore: AsiaNet Pakistan (Pvt) Ltd
Erscheinungsjahr
2022
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This paper, informed by the approaches of New Historicism, attempts to examine fiction by Khaled Hosseini in the context of Afghan culture and history. The main body of this paper consists of the analysis of Khaled Hosseini's two novels; The Kite Runner (2003) and A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007). Although his novels may be read and interpreted by using different theoretical prisms, the objective of this research is to review these novels from the new historical angle. This research has drawn upon theories of New Historicism as proposed by Stephen Greenblatt, Louis Montrose, Stephen Orgel and Robert Weimann. By focusing on the era of the late 90s and early 2000s, with the wake and rise of Taliban, we intend to see the struggles of various ideological discourses. We examine in Hosseini's fiction how the author, through his novels, challenges the narratives of history as written in political history books and how his stories prove to be a re-telling and deconstruction of the Afghan history as he targets the gaps and silences left in the political, historical texts. We argue that these texts shape and align the readers' perception of the social, political and cultural state of Afghanistan with the established ideas and also entirely contest and challenge it.