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Title FROM HOMELAND TO HOPELAND”: A DIASPORIC MARXIST PERSPECTIVE ON KHALED HOSSEINI’S THE KITE RUNNER AND AND THE MOUNTAINS ECHOED

Author(s) FROM HOMELAND TO HOPELAND”: A DIASPORIC MARXIST PERSPECTIVE ON KHALED HOSSEINI’S THE KITE RUNNER AND AND THE MOUNTAINS ECHOED

Abstract This research examines Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner and And The Mountains Echoed by employing Georg Lukacs’ concept of “transcendental homelessness.” Moreover, I have employed Homi K. Bhabha’s concept of “ambivalence” as a minor lens to trace the association of immigrants with their host nations as represented in the selected novels. Most of the characters in the selected texts have to go through hardships and are forced to leave their homes and hearths. They migrate to the countries where they find solace and can find better prospects of life. While searching for a better life, these characters become indifferent to their homeland and forget the blood relations and affiliations that were associated with it. The western metropolitan cities have become dream destinations of most of the people in the global south who look towards the “Center” for fulfillment of their needs. This research discusses the socio-economic issues related to the migrants. It also talks about the contemporary diaspora writers and the trend in their inclinations towards western lands. Since this research is qualitative in nature, I have taken textual analysis as a tool to read my primary texts.

Type Thesis/Dissertation MS

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Language English

Publication Date 2019-08-26

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