• Dr. Anupam Soni

Khaled Hosseini, an Afghan-born American novelist, has tried his hand to an unlikely setting for literary fiction. It deals with the subjects of ethnic tension, war, rape, and bachcha bazi. The novelist presents the lively picture of war-torn county vis-à-vis. Hosseini acknowledges an intended Western audience as he emphasizes the fact that the novel has helped to make Afghanistan more than ‘just another happy, chronically troubled, ‘afflicted land’ for his readers. As a peripheral writer situated at the central audience, Hosseini occupies a fraught platform in the literary world. He operates within the strange space ostensibly created by globalization and those migratory patterns engendered by conflict. The protagonist, Amir is placed as a witness to the periphery whose insights and perspectives are now modeled after, and intended for, the center. By acknowledging, Amir’s limitations in this regard, Hosseini prioritizes the peripheral voice and gives narrative space to those perspectives typically silenced at the center.

Ethnic, bachcha bazi, Afghanistan, peripheral, protagonist

"Thematic Concerns in Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.7, Issue 4, page no.914-918, April-2020, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2004623.pdf

"Thematic Concerns in Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.7, Issue 4, page no. pp914-918, April-2020, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2004623.pdf