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"Diaspora Features in Khaled Hosseinis Novels"

Ruzmatova, Dilnoza Ramatjanovna

Abstract

The aim of this study is to analyze the three novels "The Kite Runner", "A Thousand Splendid Suns", "And the Mountains Echoed" by Afghan American writer Khaled Hosseini in accordance with the main literary features of the Afghan Diaspora. This historical literature becomes one of the most interesting directions. The authors of the Afghan Diaspora, who create their works in English, distinguish three main features: languages and cultures clash, biographical method application, time and space correlation. This study is an attempt to reveal the importance of the literary characteristics of novels, considering in particular those mentioned above. This will help readers to decipher the essential Diaspora features of the works of Hosseini, using the three studied signs. In addition to this, the Diaspora and expatriate literature is identified by the researcher on the basis of examples and highlighted by the text analysis of the literary works of the Diaspora.

Keywords: diaspora literature, expatriate literature, Afghan diaspora, Afghanistan, generation, features, languages and cultures clash, biographical method, time and space correlation, text analysis, war.

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Ruzmatova, Dilnoza Ramatjanovna "Diaspora Features in Khaled Hosseinis Novels" Bulletin Social-Economic and Humanitarian Research, Volume 2, Number 4, (June 2019) P. 69 - 81. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.2650405