Hybridity As Resistance In Khaled Hosseini's Thousand Splendid Suns

Abstract

Khaled Hosseini's Thousand Splendid Suns depicts the realistic life background of women in Afganisthan, whose life lies shattered with in multiple laws and divided rules. Reflecting the impact of instability in women's life around the disrupted political and cultural scenario in Afghanistan., the novel show cases the evolution of woman life from the state of passive repression to un conditional level of resistance amidst the baffled state of existance.The paper focuses on two women characters, Mariam and Laila, the women representing two generation and intends to showcase the effect of hybrid existence in these characters life. Adopting Homi.k Baba's concept of hybridity, the hybrid existence in the study is not between the binaries of oppressor and oppressed, instead between mutually reliant identities whose cultural taming of identity establishment and ideological perception contradict each other. Hybrid existence of these woman characters results in shaping of a new identity which elevates them from the state of subjugated passive, where their life of submissiveness guaranteed by their cultural continuation is challenged.