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DOPPELGANGERS SIBLINGS IN THE KITE RUNNER
Corresponding Author(s) : Shaista Shahzadi
Humanities & Social Sciences Reviews,
Vol. 9 No. 3 (2021): May
Abstract
Purpose of the study: This study analyses the novel The Kite Runner (2007) of Khaled Hosseini in the light of the concept of mirror images given by Sigmund Freud in The Uncanny (1919). Bearing in mind Freud's conjecture, this inquiry enroots some personalities who have similar features and qualities.
Methodology: This study is qualitative in nature. The Kite Runner is the first hand and chief source. While the second hand include easy and magazines about The Kite Runner. By concentrating on the notion of mirroring as given by Freud in The Uncanny. The study applies the concept of doppelganger siblings on Amir and Hassan, two main characters in the novel.
Main Findings: The findings show that Amir and Hassan are shown as doppelgangers of one another in this study. The two personalities have some same and some different qualities like a mirror image. This study sets Amir as Heimlich and Hassan is portrayed as Unhelmlich because Amir is rich and Hassan is poor.
Applications of this study: This research contributes to the field of doppelganger literature.
Novelty/Originality of this study: This study analyzes the doppelgangers in the kite runner and thus contributes to the long tradition of doppelganger in literature: The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Frankenstein.
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- Agustina, H. N. (2015). The kite runner: My passion of literature. In International conference on Social Sciences and Humanities (ICSSH’15), 5–6 May 2015, Bali, Indonesia, 43-46.
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- Masschelein, A. (2011). The unconcept: The Freudian uncanny in late-twentieth-century theory. Suny Press.
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- Shelley, M. W. (2012). The Annotated Frankenstein. Harvard University Press.
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Albala, R. (2014). Towards an Ethics of Post-9/11 Fiction: A Reading of Ian McEwan's Saturday, Don DeLillo's Falling Man, and Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist (Doctoral dissertation, Royal Holloway, University of London).
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Edwards, E. J., & Vranken, T. (2018). “Oscar Wilde's Bookâ€: Early American Reviews of The Picture of Dorian Gray. PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, 133(1), 199-204. https://doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2018.133.1.199 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2018.133.1.199
Heholt, R. (2018). ‘Powerful beyond all question’: Catherine Crowe’s Novels of the 1840s. In British Women's Writing from Brontë to Bloomsbury, 1, 39-51. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78226-3_3 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78226-3_3
Hosseini, K. (2003). The kite runner. Penguin.
Hosseini, A. S., & Zohdi, E. (2016). The kite runner and the problem of racism and ethnicity. International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences, 74, 33-40. https://doi.org/10.18052/www.scipress.com/ILSHS.74.33 DOI: https://doi.org/10.18052/www.scipress.com/ILSHS.74.33
Islam, S. (2012). Representation of political islam in recent fiction with particular reference to john updikes terrorist, pamuks snow (Doctoral dissertation, Aligarh Muslim University).
Jain, J. (2017). Diaspora Writes Home. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4846-3 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4846-3
Jefferess, D. (2009). To be good (again): The Kite Runner as allegory of global ethics. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 45(4), 389-400. https://doi.org/10.1080/17449850903273572 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17449850903273572
Jozef Perelberg, R. (2019). Passion and melancholia, red and black: The vicissitudes of the sexual in an analytic process. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 100(6), 1237-1247. https://doi.org/10.1080/00207578.2 019.1672504 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00207578.2019.1672504
Kamm, F. A. (2019). ‘There’sa Ghost in My House’: The Female Gothic and the Supernatural in What Lies Beneath (2000). In Gender and Contemporary Horror in Film. Emerald Publishing Limited. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78769-897-020191010 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78769-897-020191010
Khadawardi, H. (2017). Superego Guilt, Redemption and Atonement in Khaled Hosseini’s the Kite Runner. International Journal of Humanities Social Sciences and Education (IJHSSE), 4(2), 88-99. https://doi.org/10.20431/2349-0381.0402009 DOI: https://doi.org/10.20431/2349-0381.0402009
Khan, A. W. (2017). Metaphors with Translingual Dimensions in the Novels of Khaled Hosseini. AWEJ for translation & Literary Studies, 1(4), 160-175. https://doi.org/10.24093/awejtls/vol1no4.13 DOI: https://doi.org/10.24093/awejtls/vol1no4.13
Malik, M. A., & Murtaza, G. (2013). The levels of Power relationship in The kite Runner. Journal of Literature, Languages and Linguistics, 1, 71-77.
Malik, M. A., Shah, S. K., & Mahmood, R. (2013). The role of linguistic devices in representing ethnicity in The Kite Runner. International Journal of Linguistics, 5(1), 161-175. https://doi.org/10.5296/ijl.v5i1.3303 DOI: https://doi.org/10.5296/ijl.v5i1.3303
Murshida, A. A. (2017). Khaled Hosseini’s the Kite Runner: A Critical Discourse Analysis (Doctoral dissertation).
Masschelein, A. (2011). The unconcept: The Freudian uncanny in late-twentieth-century theory. Suny Press.
Nayebpour, K. (2018). The Uses of Storytelling in Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner. Hacettepe Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi, 35(1), 52-60. https://doi.org/10.32600/huefd.434221 DOI: https://doi.org/10.32600/huefd.434221
O'Brien, S. (2018). Translating Trauma in Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner. Transnational Literature, 10(2), 1-A5.
Rahimy, T. (2017). Politics of Flight: A Philosophical Refuge. Erasmus University Rotterdam. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1765/103266
Rank, O. (1989). The Double: A Psychoanalytical Study, trans. Harry Tucker, Jr. London: Karnac.
Riaz, A., Nasreen, Z., & Zaman, F. (Eds.). (2018). Political Violence in South Asia. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351118224 DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351118224
Saputri, E. (2018). BEING AN AFGHAN MAN: Masculinity in the Novel Kite Runner (Doctoral dissertation, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia).
Shelley, M. W. (2012). The Annotated Frankenstein. Harvard University Press.
Tamara, A. P. (2013). Amir’s Anxiety and Motive in Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner. Semarang: Humanities Dian Nuswantoro Univerty Semarang.
Wahyudi, A. (2016). Cultural Untranslatability Words In The Novel And The Mountains Echoed By Khaled Hosseini. (Thesis) http://repository.uinjkt.ac.id/dspace/bitstream/123456789/31937/3/AHMAD%20WAHY UDI-FAH.pdf
Weber, C. P. (2019). Narrating (against) the Uncanny: Goethe's" Ballade" versus Hoffmann's Der Sandmann. Goethe Yearbook, 26(1), 79-100. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/gyr.2019.0035
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Weedman, D. (2014). Men, Monsters and Morality: Shaping Ethics through the Sublime and Uncanny. Capstone, Pacific University.