Investigation of culture and Cultural displacement in Khaled Hosseini's And the Mountains Echoed

Author Reg. ID: TIJER_100416

Published Paper Id: TIJER2302046

Published In: Volume 10 Issue 2, February-2023

Abstract: The purest form of art is literature. Society is influenced and shaped by literature. The role of literature in society is to help and improve our way of thinking and to perceive our surroundings. Literature inspires the whole nation to rebel and change. It helps to learn about human nature in all its life. Culture defines a person’s identity. The paper focuses on the loneliness and isolation of immigrants who are caught between two cultures, which exacerbates their emotional pain. Despite their desire to return, there is no actual possibility of doing so. The second generation has cultural flexibility and that flexibility makes them suffer more. They are torn between two cultures and two nations. The Afghan history, folklore, customs, food and indigenous literature continue to shape and transform the lives of those leaving Afghanistan. They wish to return to their homeland, but find it impossible to make a full return, even though the home has become an emotional drag on their lives. The paper is a subsidiary template to read the emergent and unexplored aspects of cultural and diasporic aspects of its citizens traversing different borders.

Keywords: Afghan Culture, alienation, cultural trauma, immigrants, memory.

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Page No: 330-335

Country: Nagercoil, Kannyakumari, Tamil Nadu, India

Research Area: Languages

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