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A Study of Commercial Fiction and Co-Existence Literary in Novels of Khaled Hosseini and Jhumpa Lahiri | Original Article

Sameena Banu*, Neeraj Kumar Sharma, in Journal of Advances and Scholarly Researches in Allied Education | Multidisciplinary Academic Research

ABSTRACT:

The aim of this study is to Comparing Khaled Hosseini and Jhumpa Lahiri as writers of diasporic fiction has a lot to offer to those who aspire to write fiction. These novelists have created works which are hybrid in form and representation, written in content and readily. The adoption of reader-written concepts has not only improved their commercial impact, but also their shelf-life in rapidly evolving consumer patterns. The novelists are not afraid to play with their expressive modes that are usually regarded as an obstacle to the commercial viability of a text because it may make a text difficult for the reader to consume as a product. Khaled Hosseini and Jhumpa Lahiri both puncture the dominant narratives of the Weiss West and create heroes that do not represent counter masculinity but a certain feminisation as a consequence of the ultra-masculine colonial. Amir and Subash are both heroes in The Kite Runner and The Lowland. In establishing the hybrid identity, they are able to accept, adapt and assimilate the other. The two novelists' written tenets tend to change the reader's topics to thwart his expectations and challenge his fundamental views of life. The novel's readerly form absorbs the shock of the content. These novelists split their books into parts, much like classical novelists from the last centuries, to isolate the narrators, time and space to avoid the confusion of formlessness and fear of narrative breakdown. The novels of Jhumpa Lahiri and Khaled Hosseini serve as hyper-texts which make them multicultural and therefore appealing to a large audience independent of their diasporic status. These hypertexts are full of polyethnicintertexts. This intertext allows the reader to address the prevailing narratives that freshe the sense of the cultural character of ideas and understand them. The Euro-centric conceptions of family and feminism, proper schooling, materialism, development and modernity are questioned by both Hosseini and Lahiri. Modernity promotes the fair and efficient use of resources for optimum benefit.