Complicit refugees, cosmopolitans and xenophobia: Khaled Hosseini's 'The Kite Runner' and Romesh Gunesekera's 'Reef' in conversation with texts on xenophobia in South Africa

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dc.contributor.authorFlockemann, Miki
dc.date.accessioned01/06/2017 10:55
dc.date.available01/06/2017 10:55
dc.date.issued2008
dc.description.abstractIn the aftermath of the brutal xenophobic attacks in parts of South Africa against 'other' Africans between March and May this year, a fairly sustained (if repetitive) public debate has emerged in the local press. The aim is to extend this discussion to South African literary production and to stories from elsewhere - in this case, Afghanistan and Sri Lanka. The distinction between complicit refugees and cosmopolitans draws on some of the arguments of Mark Saunders and Anthony Appiah as a framework for comparing Hosseini s popular 'The Kite Runner' (2003) and Gunsekera's lyrical 'Reef' (1994). These will be read in relation to K. Sella Duiker's 'Thirteen Cents' (2000). Establishing a 'conversation' between these texts is associated (from Appiah) with calls/or re-thinking terms such as citizen and cosmopolitan. This, in turn. has implications for the current expressions of and about, xenophobia in South Africa.en_US
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dc.identifier.citationFlockemann, M. (2017). Complicit Refugees, cosmopolitans and xenophobia: Khaled Hosseini's 'The Kite Runner' and Romesh Gunesekera's 'Reef' in conversation with texts on xenophobia in South Africa. International Journal of the Humanities, 6(9): 71-78en_US
dc.identifier.issn1447-9508
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10566/2902
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.privacy.showsubmitterFALSE
dc.publisherCommon Grounden_US
dc.rightsThis is the post-print version of the article published by Common Ground publishers.
dc.status.ispeerreviewedTRUE
dc.subjectComplicityen_US
dc.subjectRefugeeen_US
dc.subjectCosmopolitanen_US
dc.subjectXenophobiaen_US
dc.subjectNationalismen_US
dc.subjectIdentityen_US
dc.subjectTransformationen_US
dc.titleComplicit refugees, cosmopolitans and xenophobia: Khaled Hosseini's 'The Kite Runner' and Romesh Gunesekera's 'Reef' in conversation with texts on xenophobia in South Africaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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