Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner: A Postmodern Reading

Abstract

This study investigates Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner through the literary lens of postmodern theory. The multilayered novel through different perspectives including trauma-ridden narrative, allegory and subjectivity, nihilism, and desperate hope at times of turmoil, are studied in this piece of research. I argue that the novel is a classic example of a postmodern literary text with the elements of inclusiveness and saying the unsaid as its stark features. Through postmodern literary analysis, the novel essentially “humanizes” the Afghan image in a way unprecedented before and serves to be a befitting example of postmodern writing.