Diaspora communities always inevitably experience a sense of loss, an absence, which is crucial to the development of a consciousness of identity and ethnicity. Thus the narratives produced by the authors of the diaspora community highlights this trauma, struggle and the sense of loss of experienced by these communities and the cultural negotiations they have to indulge. These experiences of the struggle to assimilate and integrate into the host nation’s socio-political environment result in the formation of hybrid identities. The exiled communities dwell in a space, juxtaposed with fragments of memories, imagination and a real geopolitical space, which is regarded by Bhabha as “hybrid space” and by Edward Soja as the “third space”.
Hosseini’s creative imagination is fuelled by his memories of his childhood and …show more content…
For instance, in The Kite Runner, the letter of Hassan re-establishes the lost link of Amir with his homeland. In A Thousand Splendid Suns, it is Jalil’s letter to Mariam which is received by Laila; and in the last novel And The Mountains Echoed, the sketches made by Mr. Wahdati, the phone call by Markos to Pari informing her of the existence of a brother, and Nabi’s letter to Markos, are some of the instances where recorded messages helps the characters in their quest to discover the past. Thus they create an imaginary home which is a mythic place of desire for the diasporic subject because a real home can never be created by the exiled community, it is forever lost. What remains is only a fragment of memory and imagination juxtaposed. Nayar, while describing the concept of home for the exiled communities, brings up Rushdie’s statement that: “this reconstructed home as reflections made ‘in broken mirrors, some of whose fragments have been irretrievably lost’.” (Nayar