• JOHNSON PRABAGARAN

The scars of war and violence were transmuted through literature to express the pain of the victims. Diaspora writing is the famous genre prevails in today’s literature. Diasporic writers are the combination of victims who write about their personal experience from a foreign nation. In this paper, an Afghan novel, The Kite Runner and a Pakistani novel, Burnt Shadows, are chosen to highlight the identity crisis, marginalization within a country and politics, in a nation. Both the novels share some invisible threads which at some point overlaps each other, exhibiting the intended themes. In both the novels, the common overlapping themes are racism, migration, violence and politics. The paper strongly argues that identity is not a fixed thing and it alters as time changes. It also attempts to highlight how the central characters of the novel always find a way to get adapted to the new environment. They never condemn either the social set up or the fate instead they search for ways to explore their lives.

ETHNOCRITICAL APPROACH AND CROSS CULTURAL ENCOUNTER ON KHALED HOSSEINI’S THE KITE RUNNER AND KAMILA SHAMSIE’S BURNT SHADOWS

"ETHNOCRITICAL APPROACH AND CROSS CULTURAL ENCOUNTER ON KHALED HOSSEINI’S THE KITE RUNNER AND KAMILA SHAMSIE’S BURNT SHADOWS", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 2, page no.139-144, February-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRAA06034.pdf

"ETHNOCRITICAL APPROACH AND CROSS CULTURAL ENCOUNTER ON KHALED HOSSEINI’S THE KITE RUNNER AND KAMILA SHAMSIE’S BURNT SHADOWS", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 2, page no. pp139-144, February-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRAA06034.pdf