To be good (again): The Kite Runner as allegory of global ethics
2009; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 45; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/17449850903273572
ISSN1744-9863
Autores Tópico(s)Adventure Sports and Sensation Seeking
ResumoIn this article I critically examine Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner, and specifically the novel's ethical demand, “there is a way to be good again”, in relation to contemporary conceptions of humanitarianism. Using Mamdani's analysis of the distinction between the “good Muslim” and the “bad Muslim”, and reading the novel in dialogue with Appiah's notion of cosmopolitanism and Butler's theory of human interdependence, I argue that The Kite Runner reflects a shift from the supremacy of race and nation as primary markers of political community and identity to the idea of the “modern” as the framework for determining the “human”. As such, I read the novel as an allegory of global ethics.
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