Exploring the Political Conundrum in Afghanistan: A Sociological critique of A Thousands Splendid Suns
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This article explores how a conflict which rages for the last forty years in Afghanistan, who is a next door neighbor of Pakistan, destroys the social fabric of a society. Khalid Hosseini in his novel “A Thousand Splendid Suns,” presents a country that was once proud of its history, culture and brave people. The basic purpose of this article is to explore the political aspects of Afghan society, who are not willing to lose hope in a peaceful, stable and democratic Afghanistan. The main focus of this study investigates how the brave Afghans present a great deal of resilience and courage for survival and making an identity for themselves. The theoretical insights have been taken from Laurenson & Swingewood (1972). The sociology of literature, which argues that literature, presents a mirror of the age in which it is written. The findings of the study reveal that the novel kite runner is a kaleidoscope of the sufferings of the common people in Afghanistan. The suffering of the Afghani people had been subject to the erasure of the Western discursive ideological discourse..
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