The Reverse Narrative and Metaphorical Subversion of Stereotype in A Thousand Splendid Suns
Khaled Hosseini's A Thousand Splendid Suns follows the author's style of moving with affection and winning with plot.In addition,the novel highlights the use of reverse narrative strategy,creating many characters with subversively contrast changing images in the narrative process.The repeated use of"reverse"technique creates a sense of freshness in the process of reading and stimulates readers to reflect deeply on the author's creative intention.The double face of each character and the duality of the author's identity realize the echo in the form and strengthen the theme,and consequently,it makes readers understand the author's creative intention of subverting the national stereotype in his native writing on the foreign land.
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