چكيده
Postcolonial reading digs the processes, values and consequences of colonialism and imperialism in social, cultural and political perspective. Interrogating of these issues is possible through reading text produced by both colonizer and colonized writers. Often these texts also shock us with their depictions of ethnicity, hybridity, and more related themes which out of step, with our current ways of thinking. Nowadays, postcolonial reading is considered as one of the main disciplines in literature. The great postcolonial thinkers like Frantz Fanon, Edward Said, Homi Bhabha, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak challenge and discuss many aspects of postcolonialism regarding social, cultural, and political issues. Following the debate, Peter Barry, Irish politician, holds the attentions to writerʹs role in postcolonial texts. He considers form and style which capture content of a text with help of language sciences such as post structuralism and deconstruction. Khaled Hosseini is an Afghan-American novelist who presents his first book, The Kite Runner (2003), which fully embodies the various postcolonial notions. The novel is structured with two main characters as the postcolonial agents in different directions, in which reflect social, cultural, and political background of Afghan society during upheaval time of invader of Russian and Taliban forces. Therefore, this thesis is a postcolonial reading of The Kite Runner from a general over view to particular Barryʹs perspective on postcolonialism. Significant outcome is supposed through duality and confusion of the most aspects of The Kite Runner
