The violence triangle in Khaled Hosseini’s A thousand splendid suns

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Mustafa Wshyar

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This paper aims to explore Johan Galtung’s theory of the violence triangle through Khaled Hosseini’s novel A Thousand Splendid Suns. I will focus on how direct violence is represented as a result of structural and cultural violence. Moreover, I will also analyze the role of the invisible violence in promoting the visible violence, which is bordering on direct violence. I will argue that direct violence documents the rest of the types since that is the only visible aggression one that can be seen and witnessed through the threshold of the quasi-visible world of the novel.

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Wshyar, Mustafa. 2018. “The Violence Triangle in Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns”. AMERICANA E-Journal of American Studies in Hungary 14 (1). https://iskolakultura.hu/index.php/americanaejournal/article/view/45038.
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Mustafa Wshyar

Mustafa Wshyar obtained his MA in English Language and Literature at the University of Central Lancashire, the UK and he is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of English, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Koya University, University Park, Kurdistan Region of Iraq. He is currently a doctoral student at the Institute of English and American Studies, University of Szeged, Hungary with Stipendium Hungaricum grant of the Ministry of National Human Resources. In his doctoral research he focuses on the issues of violence, theories of conflict and trauma in the works of Khaled Hosseini. Email: mustafa.wshyar@koyauniversity.org