Cultural Resistance And Afghan Women: A Critical Study Of “A Thousand Splendid Suns”

In 2001, after the terrorists' attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Centre, Afghan women became the central attention of the Western World due to their projection by US and Western media. The objective of this study is to analyze cultural resistance in patriarchal society like Afghanistan in the novel "A Thousand Splendid Suns" written by Khalid Huosseini. He portrayed the picture of women inferior status, son's importance and number of social restrictions on Afghan women. This novel is a story of two women, one educated and other uneducated and both were married to one person, who maltreated them all the times. At the end, these women revolted against unending inhuman treatment and got free themselves by killing their husband. At the end of novel, the author concludes that education for women is necessary to create awareness about their rights and resist against discrimination.