A Re-orientalist Approach to Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns

The objective of this study is to draw upon the Orients’ skewed representation perpetuated and disseminated by Khaled Hosseini in his Anglophone fiction Kite Runner A Thousand Splendid Suns under framework Re-orientalism. Re-orientalism extends itself as a concept where Oriental author propagates literature mystifying East barbaric uncivilized turn validating hypothesis suppress rule Orient. This adopts Qualitative approach applying technique close reading with theoretical framework. findings show Orient monolithic essentialized manner they are exoticized, caricatured concocted antithesis enlightened West selected works.