The Single story of Afghans and Afghanistan in The Kite Runner

Abstract

Orient is the subject matter of nearly all orientalists’ literary works. But this study utilizing the nexus of Lisa Lau’s Re-orientalism and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s The Danger of a Single Story to know how Afghan-diasporic writer Khaled Hosseini through his re-orientalistic techniques present a partial image of Afghans’ cultural and religious practices. This qualitative study utilizes textual analysis approach to analyze the text. The people of Afghanistan and their practices are represented in a stereotypical way. The study finds out those techniques that easily categorizes the novel The Kite Runner as a re-orientalist work. On the other hand, the literary representation of Afghans makes the story of the novel fable against the charges of a single story.