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Journal Article
Nostalgia for Afghanistan's History in Tony Kushner's Homebody/Kabul
2024
Overview
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 (1950). The play depicts the suffering of the English protagonist, Homebody, from displacement within her homeland and family and her 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 through her book The Future of Nostalgia (2001,) and Dennis Walder throughout his Postcolonial Nostalgias: Writing, Representation, and Memory (2012), in order to examine how nostalgia for the lost time and the lost homeland may force the colonizer to recall the history and to seek home in the land of the colonized. Through a postcolonial lens, the analysis investigates Homebody's emotions of displacement from her home and her emotions of alienation from the present which forces her to search home in the land of the colonized, first mentally by recalling its history then by moving physically to Afghanistan.
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جامعة عين شمس - كلية البنات للآداب والعلوم والتربية
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