A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS: RHETORICAL VISION OF AFGHAN WOMEN

Author (s) : Ms.K.LEEMA ROSI and Mrs.S.ISHWARYA

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Abstract :
Following the assaults on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, Afghan women unexpectedly received excessive visibility all over the world. Since then, representations of Afghan women in the Western media and enormously in the U.S. news media furnish a quintessential subject to scholars. Much of the relevant literature on this subject matter speaks to the reality that the dominant portrayal of Afghan girls in the Western media has shown them as passive victims of struggle and violence, to be liberated only by means of the Western military intervention. However, the question remains as to how the famous fictional narratives, as every other vivid source of information, signify Afghan female to the Western readers. To address this question, A Thousand Splendid Suns, as a popular novel authored by using Khalid Hosseini, an Afghan novelist, was once selected. Bormannian myth theme evaluation of this novel conveys the passivity of female in the context of Afghanistan. The findings expose that the portrayals of Afghan female in the novel correspond with the snap shots of Afghan female in the Western media. Moreover, an examination of a sample of book critiques of the novel unveils the vital contribution of Khalid Hosseini to the Orientalist discourse.

Keywords : Rhetorical Vision, Splendid Suns

Conference Date : 17/09/2021

Pages : 30

Paper ID : IESMDT29