LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 18:6 June 2018
ISSN 1930-2940

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Reconstruction of a Nation:
A Reading of Khaled Hosseini’s Fiction

J. Dhivya Silvester, Ph.D. Research Scholar (Full time)


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Abstract

A National narrative has the history of the nation within the stories. It also has characters which witness the political changes of the nation. They express their aspirations for their nation. Khaled Hosseini is an Afghan author who voices for his nation through his writings. The present study is an attempt to analyse the novels of Khaled Hosseini for its historical background.

Keywords: Geography, Invasion, Colonization, Civil War, Taliban, War Crimes.

Nation – A Historical Phenomenon

The nation is the largest effective community which is permeated by a common consciousness of a common kind. Sociological thinkers like Frederick Hertz, Schumna, Karl Marx and Frederick Engels recognize that the nation is distinctly a historical phenomenon. They equate nation with statehood and opine that people of a state are a nation.

“The birth of a nation is an extra festival on the calendar, a new myth to celebrate . . . a country which would never exist except by the efforts of a phenomenal collective will except in a dream we all agreed to dream . . . a collective fiction in which anything was possible” (qtd. in Nayar 77). A nation is drawn, constructed on paper, and enforced through material forces like immigration offices, the military, passports and visas. It exists in the icons people adopt to believe in. Benedict Anderson rightly says that nation is imagination. The postcolonial writers are keen to bring out the collective voices of their nations which have long been suppressed.

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J. Dhivya Silvester
Ph.D. Research Scholar (Full time)
Department of English & Research Centre
Scott Christian College (Autonomous)
Affiliated to Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli
Nagercoil-629003
Tamilnadu
India
dhivyasilvester@gmail.com

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