LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 17:1 January 2017
ISSN 1930-2940

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Courageous Women:
A Study of Resilience of Women in Khaled Hosseini’s Novel
A Thousand Splendid Suns

Muhammad Imran Joyia, M.Phil. English
Umer Farooq, M.Phil. Scholar in English
Sohail Ghafoor, M.Phil. Scholar in English
Ammara Gull, M.Phil. Scholar in English

Abstract

This research paper is based on Khaled Hosseini’s daring effort to highlight and acknowledge the marginalization and subjugation of women in patriarchal society especially in Afghanistan. In his second novel A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007), he introduced many female characters which are victimized, sexually harassed, suppressed by both male and female figures but in-spite of all they challenged the brutality. They found their ways to live their lives and proved that if you have the courage to bear, can bear any calamity of the world and make your way to live life. There is a message for all those women of the world who are suffering from any type of male or female brutality that they can stand against all oppressions and suppressions. To be a woman is not bad, but to be a coward woman is really bad.

Keywords: marginalization, patriarchal society, sexually harassed, oppressions, suppressions

Hosseini and His Novels

Hosseini is a young Afghan-American doctor and writer. His contribution in fiction makes him prominent around the globe. His 1st novel is The Kite Runner, which represents the class system in the regime of Talbans in Afghanistan. He highlights the Shia-Sunni difference and makes the Hazara community subaltern within subaltern. His second novel is A Thousand Splendid Suns, where the focus is on the female subaltern characters, which are marginalized doubly and triply by the hands of male, system, culture and male-made society. There is surge of freedom awakening among the females. And the Mountain Echoed is his last novel which tells the story of a war-torn poor family who sells his daughter to a wealthy couple in Kabul to escape from hunger and starvation. In all three novels, male and female are in sorry plight but the females are in worse dilapidated condition and they are more subaltern.

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Muhammad Imran Joyia, M.Phil. English
Bahuddin Zakaryia University Multan, Pakistan
imranjoyia76@gmail.com

Umer Farooq, M.Phil. Scholar in English
University of Sargoodha, Pakistan
umerrahber@gmail.com

Sohail Ghafoor, M.Phil. Scholar in English
Government College University Faisalabad, Pakistan
sohailghafoor1968@gmail.com

Ammara Gull, M.Phil. Scholar in English
University of Sargoodha, Pakistan
gullhameed129@gmail.com
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