A Re-orientalist Approach to Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns

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2022
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Abstract
The objective of this study is to draw upon the Orients’ skewed representation perpetuated and disseminated by Khaled Hosseini in his Anglophone fiction The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns under the framework of Re-orientalism. Re-orientalism extends itself as a concept where the Oriental author propagates a literature mystifying the East as barbaric and uncivilized and in turn validating the hypothesis to suppress and rule the Orient. This study adopts a Qualitative approach by applying the technique of close reading with Re-orientalism as the theoretical framework. The findings of this study show the Orient in a monolithic and essentialized manner where they are exoticized, caricatured and concocted as antithesis of the enlightened West in the selected works.
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Authors Munawar Iqbal Ahmad
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Journal Pakistan Languages and Humanities Review
Year 2022
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10.47205/plhr.2022(6-III)75
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https://ojs.plhr.org.pk/journal/article/view/517
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