Abstract

Representation of Women and Circulation of Power in Khaled Hosseini’s and the Mountains Echoed: A Montrosean Reading

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  • In the roughly a hundred or a hundred and ten years, several governments have ruled in Afghanistan and Afghan people have experienced different regimes

  • Hosseini’s novel And the Mountains Echoed describes the boundless miseries of Afghan women who were imprisoned in the power structure of men and institutions of power such as family, society and the government

  • Since new historicism Montrosean reading requires intertextual analysis of literary works, we focused on two other Afghan Novels Our Alley by Dr Usman and Noqra, Daughter of Kabul River by Homeira Qaderi

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Introduction

In the roughly a hundred or a hundred and ten years, several governments have ruled in Afghanistan and Afghan people have experienced different regimes. Since power plays a key role in changing a regime and continuing another one, social, political, economic and educational life of people was highly influenced under such conditions. Women as half of the society have been the sole victims of power structure of family, society and government in the 20th century in Afghanistan. Men as power runners in the country, especially in the government and commonly in the families have been in the highest position, and women were controlled by them. The discourse that majority of Afghan writers in Afghanistan and out of this country have paid a very close attention to, IJELS-2021, 6(6), (ISSN: 2456-7620).

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