THE ISSUE OF CULTURE IDENTITY IN KHALID HUSSAINI’S NOVEL THE THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS
Keywords:
Ethnicity, Culture Identity, Patriarchal Culture, Suppression, ViolenceAbstract
This study inculcates the issues pertaining to cultural identity in Khaled Hosseini’s novel “A Thousand Splendid Suns” in the Afghan society. The paper assimilates cultural evokes with that implicate political upheavals. The purpose of the study is to study cultural intricacies in light of text and events presented by the novel as, two women with different upbringings in similar Afghanistan go through events of societal upheavals, disappointment, aggression, violence and deceit. Moreover, this study explores and focuses on issue of women’s identity in Afghanistan and how a tribal society, in their transitory period of war and unrest, has an impact on lives of ordinary masses living in a domestic placidity. This qualitative research highlights how Afghan tribal values have fashioned women’s status and Afghan women in their lifetime, from an early childhood have societal protocols to endure upon patriarchal culture.
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