War traumatic complexities in Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner under the light of Shoshana Felman’s Testimony

This article circulates around the question that how does Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner [3] and its war traumatic complexities reflect Shoshana Felman’s Testimony and from excerpts in the novel, it will be demonstrated that it turns around war trauma. In this essay the character of the novel experience the traumatic events of his first generation or his parents and show the experience of those who have grown up oppressed by narratives of traumatic events that overwhelm and form their own stories and yet can neither be understood nor restored. In The Kite Runner, the war was a trial whose inter-generational outcome was for many years concealed deep down by the survivors, in their requirement to start anew. However this releases a cathartic release of trauma upon the second generation as they gradually start raking up the past, gaining more knowledge of the long gone. The memory of fierceness, the immigration and spatial separation leads to the inability to construct a tangible self-identity.