AMBIQUITY OF COLONIAL-AFGHAN AGENCY IN KHALED HOSSEINI’S THE KITE RUNNER AND THE MOUNTAINS ECHOED A POSTCOLONIAL READING

This article explores Khaled Hossieni’s The Kite Runner and the Mountains Echoed in the context of responsibility to respond on behalf of Afghanistan post 9/11 or reinforces colonial hegemonies. It suggests that while Hosseini’s both novels capture that socio-cultural problems like gender, ethnicity and religious extremism in the graveyard of empires. Although the novels oscillate between western exceptionalism and Afghan agency, I argue that the creates an ambiguous identity.