An Analysis Of Female Images In And The Mountains Echoed Upon Spatial Criticism

Khaled Hosseini was born in Kabul,Afghan in 1965 and moved to the United States with his father later.Graduating from Santa Clara University and earning a bachelor's degree in biology,Hosseini lives in California now.So far his novels include The Kite Runner,A Thousand Splendid Suns and And the Mountains Echoed,each of which meets with a favorable response.From a special perspective-an American Afghanistan,setting turbulent Afghanistan as his creative background,Hosseini draws the outline of strong and brave Afghan's courses to pursue belief,charity as well as freedom.Meanwhile,Hosseini aims at lifting miserable veils to present their fragile,sensitive and actual soul.Published in 2013,And the Mountains Echoed pays attention to ethnic minorities.On the basis of spatial criticism and close reading of the texts,the paper attempts to analyze different female images in And the Mountains Echoed.Spatial Criticism was formed primarily in the transformation of global cultural thoughts occurred in the 20th century.People hold a new comprehension towards time and space,and their scope of research transformed from pure historical space,or natural space to focused on non-theoretical view among texts,which paved a new way for cultural study about humanistic and social science.As a crucial part among space,female should be paid much more attention naturally.This thesis tries to analyze female images in the novel from three points of view.As to social space,females are oppressed both in patriarchal society as well as social ethic and morality.Without any power of discourse,they become destitute and homeless;at the same time,the shape of their personalities and ways of behavior are influenced greatly.As to individual space,awakening of part of women's awareness drives them to be rebellious or self-identified individuals,going on a way of constructing subjectivity and the awareness of discourse.All these reflect the fact that females begin to be strong in psychology through their own strength and efforts.As to space shifting,females not only are liberated physically and spiritually,but also turn to be clear on life planning;they realize the meaning of life and achieve enhancement and leap.Through the analysis of female images in the novel we can see that women's destinies have a close relationship with living environment;moreover,they are in the hands of their own.Although women may come across different kinds of situations in various times,pursuing for independence and self-value are the eternal themes.Female's living and developing concerns to social history's progress,harmony and stability,so it ought to be attached great importance gradually.Indeed,enriching female images is good for them to recognize significances of self-existing in order to obtain self-fulfillment.