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Abstract

As the creative arts in general, distinct from propaganda-literature which might be both pro and anti multicultural, promote at once cultural diversity and racial integration in terms of the variety of human societies or cultures in a specific region, The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini presents itself as a powerful and impregnable depiction of the creation of a composite AfghanAmerican cultural identity against the turbulence of modern Afghanistan. What is tellingly important here is, such great literary work tends to reveal the fact that the cultural diversity is not inimical to national integration but rather it conduces to harmonious bondage, cultural affiliation and social attachment. As literature is expected to conduce to integration through an un-programmed imaginative manner, Hosseini’s hybridized and multi-dimensional AfghanAmerican tale has struck an “emotive string” within readers, instigating powerful connections and strong, invisible “emotional bridge” between themselves and the world that Hosseini describes with indelible effect. Constructed with thoughtful instruction Hosseini’s multicultural novel transcends the literary value and cultural awareness. Students become empowered as culturally and socially glocal (Global and local) citizens.

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