By using our site, you agree to our collection of information through the use of cookies. To learn more, view our Privacy Policy. To browse Academia. In psychology, postmodernity is perceived as having detraditionalized our understanding of and attitude to love and intimate relationship, as a result of which postmodern relationships are viewed as being built on and determining a change in emotional and sexual intimacy, the significance of sexual satisfaction, as well as developments in the process of individualisation.
In diaspora literature, these changes and developments connected to love, and happening when the individual experiences the presence and transcendence of love, are often further intensified and complicated by issues of race, ethnicity and religion. In facts, the metamorphosis of the self would be a reflection of a number of unconventional narrative forms: reflexive territories whose benchmarks would be, mainly, at the level of migratory movements.
Such a broad subject could be partially identified on the basis of a definite corpus. By means of a comparative approach, we propose a modest illumination on these inner-self and outer-self problematized spaces. Weighing with all their strenght on postmodernity, they still resonate in the 21 st century with the critical margins of the collective unconscious. International Journal of English and Literature, Khaled Hosseini is one of the most prolific Afghan-American Writer who beautifully investigates into the delicacies of human relationships.
In his novels, Hosseini has stated his concern about the despicable conditions of the people in general and women in specific who have been doubly disregarded βone by the society and the other inside the four walls of their homes. Against the backdrop of such a ruptured environment, the strong factor that gives strength to the characters is the bond of love and trustworthiness as reflected in The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns and the Mountains Echoed.
Hosseini makes it vibrant and clear that these love stories are very much unlike the platonic narratives of romantic love hood between a man and a woman. Their love is tried and testified in extreme difficult situations and the characters are left to realize their indi Ahdaf Soueif presents the difficult task of facing the Orientalist discourse in her tour de force The Map of Love and structures it on the strategic use of positivist Orientalism which produces an interesting novelistic outcome.
