Transcultural Narrative in Khalid Hosseini’s and the Mountains Echoed: A New Historicist Analysis

作者：Hina Hadayat Ali, Mazhar Hayat, Malik Haqnawaz Danish, Doshab Azher · 发表于：Pakistan Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences · 年份：2022 · DOI：10.52131/pjhss.2022.1002.0228 · 被引用次数：1 · 研究领域：Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East、Islamic Studies and History

Hosseini in his third novel And the Mountain Echoed endeavors to portray the social, political, and historical background of different cultures and highlights the core issues running parallel within the situation of Afghanistan, entangled in challenges of political instabilities, social unrest, insecurities due to foreign invasion, the rise of Taliban and the status of Afghanistan after 9/11. By keeping tabs on Afghan culture, this research has explored Hosseini’s paralleled narratives of other cultures such as Paris, America, and Greece. To generate a power discourse, these narrations construct an identity and authoritative stance by invoking the influential backgrounds and histories that cause these different ethnicities to revolve all around the world, a global movement towards the reevaluation of the old notions and concepts about the fixity of boundaries of nation-states. By observing the cultural taboos in different countries, Hosseini points out the distressing factors that weaken a culture by referring to the Afghan wars and a certain political agenda in counter countries. By highlighting these cultural taboos, different nations uphold a discourse of power against rival cultures. Through counter-cultural practices, cultural values and taboos are set forth to evaluate the nature and function of different cultures presented in the novel. His indecisive affinity with his own native place shows his monomaniacal focus on a transcultural outlook. This research combines the ...