Nostalgia for Afghanistan’s History in Tony Kushner’s Homebody/Kabul | ||||
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| Article 12, Volume 4, Issue 1, January 2024, Page 1-21 PDF (784.59 K) | ||||
| Document Type: أوراق بحثیة أکادیمیة | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/buhuth.2024.265481.1634 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
غادة مصطفى عمر موسى   1; جيهان فاروق2; مني حواش3; رانيا رضا نصر3
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| 1باحثة دكتوراة كليه البنات قسم لغة انجليزية | ||||
| 2قسم اللغة الانجليزية- کلية البنات - جامعة عين شمس مصر | ||||
| 3كلية البنات جامعة عين شمس | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| The objective of this paper is to represent how the feelings of dissatisfaction with the present can lead the colonizer to recall the history of the colonized land. This is represented through the analysis of the American play Homebody/Kabul (2001) written by Tony Kushner (195 -). The play depicts the suffering of the English protagonist, Homebody, from displacement within her homeland and alienation from the present. Therefore, she decides to seek home and to recall history of Afghanistan, a country which is trapped between its glorious past and its traumatic present. Thus, nostalgia becomes a helpful mechanism for the colonizer to transcend those feelings of alienation and displacement. The analysis of this paper depends on the theories of Svetlana Boym and Dennis Walder to examine how nostalgia for the lost time and the lost homeland may force the colonizer to recall the history and seek home in the land of the colonized. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Nostalgia; Homeland; Tony Kushner; Recalling history | ||||
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