FORCED IDENTITIES, FAITH AND FEMININITY A CONGRUENCE IN A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS

  • Dr Aswathy A

Abstract

Khaled Hosseinis A Thousand Splendid Suns is an incredible work that portrays past, faith and gender in non-linear terrains of identity formation. The novel has touched the hearts of thousands world around. In the historic terrain it chronicles the history of Afghan people, their relationships both inside and outside their kinship groups. As an Afghan-American novelist, Hussein depicts the experience of female during the different power periods in the history of Afghanistan including the Taliban dictatorship and Soviet occupations. The narratology paces through the war-torn mainlands of the country. The position of women in the novel, especially in a patriarchal society that questions the closely knitted convoluted identity of the folk. Their struggle against gender discrimination and oppression from the point of a male narrator and the strength of the narrative itself to voice the same adds charm to the novel. Thus the paper tries to bring forth the congruence of forced identities, faith and femininity in A Thousand Splendid Suns.

Published
2019-11-15
Section
Articles