Culture Kite Runner
Misrepresentation of Culture in Meatless Days and Kite Runner
By
Muhammad Akram Saqib
2013-gcuf-17123
Thesis proposal submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of
MASTERS OF PHILOSOPHY
IN
ENGLISH LITERATURE
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH LITERATURE
GC UNIVERSITY, FAISALABAD.
SAHIWAL CAMPUS
March, 2015
Abstract
Study of the Kite Runner and Meatless days is an endeavour to present the misrepresentation of native cultures by Sara Suleri and Khalid Hosseini. Cultural study of literature is one of the important issues which has got new dimensions with the entrance of the postcolonial …show more content…
Orientalism is one of the most influential theories of post colonialism. It becomes a touchstone to judge a work from certain angle. A text is structured like a textile but the weaving is not done by the Author, it is a consequence of the particular conditions which make the text possible. Orientalism constructs binary division between orient and Occident. It is propagated through literature of all kind. Orient is considered timeless and strange. It incites racism, gender inequality, and is considered as feminine, it is degenerate. Typical stereotypes and weaknesses as cowardliness, laziness, untrustworthiness, fickleness, laxity, violence and lust are related to oriental people. Orientals are considered as possessing weak moral sense and the readiness to indulge themselves in the more dubious aspects of human behaviour. Orientalism advanced the notion the oriental people needed to be civilized and made to obey perceived higher moral standard of the west. Glimpse of such traits is found in the characters and narrative of both these …show more content…
Notes of A Native Son, London, 1964
Bhabha, Homi , The Location of Culture (Routledge, 1994)
Bertens, Hans. Literary theory, The basics.NewYark: (Routledge, 2008)
Bennet,Andrew &Nicholas,Royal. Introduction to literature,criticism and theory.London(Pearson,2004)
Bhabha, Homi K. Nation and Narration, London:( Routledge, 1990).
Hosseini, Khaled. The Kite runner. New Yark: Riverhead books, 2003. Print).
Harlow: Pearson, 2005
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Sara Suleri, Meatless Days Portland (powell , 1991)
Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. ‘Can the Subaltern Speak?’ (Nelson and Lawrence 1988)
Tyson, Lois. Critical theory today, a user friendly Guide .London: (Routledge,
By
Muhammad Akram Saqib
2013-gcuf-17123
Thesis proposal submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of
MASTERS OF PHILOSOPHY
IN
ENGLISH LITERATURE
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH LITERATURE
GC UNIVERSITY, FAISALABAD.
SAHIWAL CAMPUS
March, 2015
Abstract
Study of the Kite Runner and Meatless days is an endeavour to present the misrepresentation of native cultures by Sara Suleri and Khalid Hosseini. Cultural study of literature is one of the important issues which has got new dimensions with the entrance of the postcolonial …show more content…
Orientalism is one of the most influential theories of post colonialism. It becomes a touchstone to judge a work from certain angle. A text is structured like a textile but the weaving is not done by the Author, it is a consequence of the particular conditions which make the text possible. Orientalism constructs binary division between orient and Occident. It is propagated through literature of all kind. Orient is considered timeless and strange. It incites racism, gender inequality, and is considered as feminine, it is degenerate. Typical stereotypes and weaknesses as cowardliness, laziness, untrustworthiness, fickleness, laxity, violence and lust are related to oriental people. Orientals are considered as possessing weak moral sense and the readiness to indulge themselves in the more dubious aspects of human behaviour. Orientalism advanced the notion the oriental people needed to be civilized and made to obey perceived higher moral standard of the west. Glimpse of such traits is found in the characters and narrative of both these …show more content…
Notes of A Native Son, London, 1964
Bhabha, Homi , The Location of Culture (Routledge, 1994)
Bertens, Hans. Literary theory, The basics.NewYark: (Routledge, 2008)
Bennet,Andrew &Nicholas,Royal. Introduction to literature,criticism and theory.London(Pearson,2004)
Bhabha, Homi K. Nation and Narration, London:( Routledge, 1990).
Hosseini, Khaled. The Kite runner. New Yark: Riverhead books, 2003. Print).
Harlow: Pearson, 2005
Julia Kristeva - Revolution in Poetic Language, 1984
Jacque Lacan - The Ego in Freud 's Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis, 1988;
Lamming, George. The Pleasures of Exile, London: (Michael Joseph. 1960)
Said, Edward. Orientalism, London:(( Routledge. 1978)
Seldon, Raman et al A reader 's Guide to Cotemporary Literary Theory.
Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. ‘Can the Subaltern Speak?. (Wedge ,1985)
Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics, New York: (Methuen. 1988)
Sara Suleri, Meatless Days Portland (powell , 1991)
Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. ‘Can the Subaltern Speak?’ (Nelson and Lawrence 1988)
Tyson, Lois. Critical theory today, a user friendly Guide .London: (Routledge,