HOW QUIETLY WE ENDURE ALL THAT FALLS UPON US: A FEMINIST STUDY OF KHALED HOSSEINI’S A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS

Abstract

  The paper aims to identify the sexual, physical, emotional and psychological discrimination, faced by female characters in Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns. Analyzing the works related to the paper through qualitative method of research, the paper, through the characters of Laila and Mariam, discusses the subordination and marginalization that the Afghan women have to endure. It presents the status of Afghan women as the victims of not only patriarchy but political changes, terrorism and war as well.