Narrating Female Absence In Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner : Focalization, Gendered Silence, And Postcolonial Feminist Critique
Auteurs : Zeghoudi Imane .
Résumé
This article investigates the intersection of postcolonial and feminist discourses through a critical reading of Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner (2003). The study employs a postcolonial feminist framework to explore the marginalization, silencing, and symbolic absence of women within Afghan society as depicted in the novel. By combining theoretical insights from Edward Said, Gayatri Spivak, Homi Bhabha, and Hisham Sharabi with feminist perspectives such as those of Simone de Beauvoir and Chandra Mohanty, this article highlights how the novel exposes gender inequalities entrenched in Afghanistan’s patriarchal and postcolonial culture. Adopting a qualitative descriptive-analytical methodology, the study reveals that The Kite Runner not only illustrates the socio-cultural constraints imposed upon women but also critiques the deeply rooted masculine hierarchy that dominates Afghan identity and discourse. Ultimately, the paper concludes that Hosseini’s omission of female agency serves as an implicit critique of patriarchal oppression and reflects the double colonization of women in postcolonial societies.
Mots clés
Afghanistan ; Postcolonial Feminism ; Gender Inequality ; Neo-patriarchy ; Patriarchy ; The Kite Runner
