AMBIQUITY OF COLONIAL-AFGHAN AGENCY IN KHALED HOSSEINI’S THE KITE RUNNER AND THE MOUNTAINS ECHOED A POSTCOLONIAL READING

作者：Tushar Sharma, Sujata Rana · 发表于：ShodhKosh Journal of Visual and Performing Arts · 年份：2026 · DOI：10.29121/shodhkosh.v7.i2s.2026.7110 · 研究领域：Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies、Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East、Contemporary Literature and Criticism

This article explores Khaled Hossieni’s The Kite Runner and the Mountains Echoed in the context of responsibility to respond on behalf of Afghanistan post 9/11 or reinforces colonial hegemonies. It suggests that while Hosseini’s both novels capture that socio-cultural problems like gender, ethnicity and religious extremism in the graveyard of empires. Although the novels oscillate between western exceptionalism and Afghan agency, I argue that the creates an ambiguous identity.