The Notion of Homeland, “Imaginary Homeland” and Wounded Memory in Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner
This article explores the idea of homeland, “imaginary homeland” and wounded memory in Khaled Hosseini’s debut novel, The Kite Runner (2003). The idea of homeland, which includes the illustration of a person’s nostalgia towards homeland, is a significant topic of discussion among scholars of diaspor...
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| description | This article explores the idea of homeland, “imaginary homeland” and wounded memory in Khaled Hosseini’s debut novel, The Kite Runner (2003). The idea of homeland, which includes the illustration of a person’s nostalgia towards homeland, is a significant topic of discussion among scholars of diaspora studies. The article demonstrates that Afghanistan as depicted in Hosseini’s novel represents the author’s nostagic feeling towards his home country. The novel also illustrates the ideas of a shattered dream and fragmented memories of diaspora subjects which are caused by the loss of homeland as discussed in Salman Rushdie (2006)’s seminal article, “Imaginary |
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| spelling | my.usm.eprints.37635 http://eprints.usm.my/37635/ The Notion of Homeland, “Imaginary Homeland” and Wounded Memory in Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner Sulaiman, Suraiya H Social Sciences This article explores the idea of homeland, “imaginary homeland” and wounded memory in Khaled Hosseini’s debut novel, The Kite Runner (2003). The idea of homeland, which includes the illustration of a person’s nostalgia towards homeland, is a significant topic of discussion among scholars of diaspora studies. The article demonstrates that Afghanistan as depicted in Hosseini’s novel represents the author’s nostagic feeling towards his home country. The novel also illustrates the ideas of a shattered dream and fragmented memories of diaspora subjects which are caused by the loss of homeland as discussed in Salman Rushdie (2006)’s seminal article, “Imaginary School of Social Sciences 2015 Book Section PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.usm.my/37635/1/sspis_2015_ms550_-_560.pdf Sulaiman, Suraiya (2015) The Notion of Homeland, “Imaginary Homeland” and Wounded Memory in Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner. In: Conference Proceedings of Social Sciences Postgraduate International Seminar (SSPIS). School of Social Sciences, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia, pp. 550-560. ISBN 978-967-11473-2-0 |
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| title | The Notion of Homeland, “Imaginary Homeland” and Wounded Memory
in Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner |
| title_full | The Notion of Homeland, “Imaginary Homeland” and Wounded Memory
in Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner |
| title_fullStr | The Notion of Homeland, “Imaginary Homeland” and Wounded Memory
in Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Notion of Homeland, “Imaginary Homeland” and Wounded Memory
in Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner |
| title_short | The Notion of Homeland, “Imaginary Homeland” and Wounded Memory
in Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner |
| title_sort | notion of homeland, “imaginary homeland” and wounded memory
in khaled hosseini’s the kite runner |
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