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Khaled Hosseini's women as modern archetypes: A study of obedient, resistant and empowered Afghan women
This article focuses on Khaled Hosseini's use of the analogy of women as obedient, resistant, and empowered as modern archetypes who learn of the gendered oppression that works through their bodies. Khaled Hosseini, through his writings, lends voice and offers moral encouragement to women by cr...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9748278/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36530451 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2022.1041435 |
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description | This article focuses on Khaled Hosseini's use of the analogy of women as obedient, resistant, and empowered as modern archetypes who learn of the gendered oppression that works through their bodies. Khaled Hosseini, through his writings, lends voice and offers moral encouragement to women by crafting resistant, rebellious, empowered, and strong female characters. With theoretical support from Johnson's Patriarchal Terrorism and Spivak's Can the subaltern speak, this article traces how Hosseini interrogates the patriarchal hierarchies that encompass women's identity in Afghanistan. Women's sufferings correlate with the country's overall circumstances, particularly during and after the war, on the terror regime. Therefore, women's endurance and Afghanistan's endurance amid hostile and oppressive circumstances become equally imperative for Hosseini's works. This article finds that Hosseini correlates Afghan women's issues like tradition and modernity, women and Islam, mother and daughter relationship, resistance and rebellion, and their quest for change and empowerment with the war on terror, foreign invasions, and the rule of the Taliban in Afghanistan. |
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spelling | pubmed-97482782022-12-15 Khaled Hosseini's women as modern archetypes: A study of obedient, resistant and empowered Afghan women Imran, Muhammad Ismail, Sayed M. Front Sociol Sociology This article focuses on Khaled Hosseini's use of the analogy of women as obedient, resistant, and empowered as modern archetypes who learn of the gendered oppression that works through their bodies. Khaled Hosseini, through his writings, lends voice and offers moral encouragement to women by crafting resistant, rebellious, empowered, and strong female characters. With theoretical support from Johnson's Patriarchal Terrorism and Spivak's Can the subaltern speak, this article traces how Hosseini interrogates the patriarchal hierarchies that encompass women's identity in Afghanistan. Women's sufferings correlate with the country's overall circumstances, particularly during and after the war, on the terror regime. Therefore, women's endurance and Afghanistan's endurance amid hostile and oppressive circumstances become equally imperative for Hosseini's works. This article finds that Hosseini correlates Afghan women's issues like tradition and modernity, women and Islam, mother and daughter relationship, resistance and rebellion, and their quest for change and empowerment with the war on terror, foreign invasions, and the rule of the Taliban in Afghanistan. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-11-30 /pmc/articles/PMC9748278/ /pubmed/36530451 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2022.1041435 Text en Copyright © 2022 Imran and Ismail. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Sociology Imran, Muhammad Ismail, Sayed M. Khaled Hosseini's women as modern archetypes: A study of obedient, resistant and empowered Afghan women |
title | Khaled Hosseini's women as modern archetypes: A study of obedient, resistant and empowered Afghan women |
title_full | Khaled Hosseini's women as modern archetypes: A study of obedient, resistant and empowered Afghan women |
title_fullStr | Khaled Hosseini's women as modern archetypes: A study of obedient, resistant and empowered Afghan women |
title_full_unstemmed | Khaled Hosseini's women as modern archetypes: A study of obedient, resistant and empowered Afghan women |
title_short | Khaled Hosseini's women as modern archetypes: A study of obedient, resistant and empowered Afghan women |
title_sort | khaled hosseini's women as modern archetypes: a study of obedient, resistant and empowered afghan women |
topic | Sociology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9748278/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36530451 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2022.1041435 |
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