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@article{208146,
        author = {Hima S S},
        title = {Silenced Bodies, Resilient Voices: The Poetics of Gendered Violence, Trauma, and Resistance in Khaled Hosseini},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2026},
        volume = {13},
        number = {4},
        pages = {554-559},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=208146},
        abstract = {Khaled Hosseini’s fiction offers a compelling representation of war, displacement, gender inequality, and personal trauma in Afghanistan. His novels The Kite Runner (2003) and A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007) particularly demonstrate how political violence becomes intertwined with domestic oppression, producing bodies that are silenced, violated, displaced, and psychologically wounded. This article examines the poetics of gendered violence, trauma, and resistance in Hosseini’s fiction, with particular emphasis on the experiences of women and marginalized individuals whose voices are suppressed by patriarchal structures, political conflict, and cultural expectations. Drawing upon feminist and trauma-theoretical perspectives, the study argues that Hosseini does not represent trauma merely as individual psychological suffering; rather, he situates trauma within broader histories of war, patriarchy, displacement, and social injustice. In A Thousand Splendid Suns, Mariam and Laila demonstrate different forms of resistance against patriarchal violence, while in The Kite Runner, the experiences of Hassan and other marginalized characters reveal the intersection of ethnic, class, and gendered power. The article further explores silence as both a consequence of oppression and a complex form of survival. Hosseini’s characters gradually transform silence into testimony, memory, sacrifice, and resistance. Through fragmented memories, recurring images, bodily suffering, and emotionally charged narratives, his fiction gives literary presence to those whose experiences have historically remained unheard. Ultimately, Hosseini constructs a poetics in which wounded bodies become sites of memory and resilient voices challenge structures of domination.},
        keywords = {Khaled Hosseini, Gendered Violence, Trauma, Resistance, Patriarchy.},
        month = {September},
        }