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1、灿烂千阳An Analysis of A Thousand Splendid Suns from the Perspective of Spivaks Postcolonial FeminismYe XiaoyingSupervisor: Lin Wei A dissertation presented in partial fulfillment of the requirementsfor the Degree of BA in English（business-oriented） at Guangzhou University of Chinese MedicineMay, 2022Ta
2、ble was in a declining situation. Rasheed always fights Mariam for something insignificant. Unlike Mariam, Laila is a well-educated, beautiful and happy girl. Her father is a local professor who teaches at Kabul University. Unlike ordinary Muslim families, their families advocate equality between me
3、n an a review on the previous studies on the novel at home and abroad. The third part establishes the theoretical framework for the study, emphasizing on Spivaks postcolonial feminist theory. The forth part is the analytical part of this dissertation in detail with the theory, which specifically ana
4、lyses the harm of patriarchy and imperialism to the two heroines. The fifth part makes a concrete analysis of how the two heroines accomplish their identity construction. The last part covers the conclusions of interpretation, as well as the limitations existing in the study and some suggestions for
5、 future studies.2. Literature ReviewAs a bestseller, A Thousand Splendid Suns arises many scholars interest. But the book was published a few years ago and the writer is a new comer in the writing field. So the essay no mater foreign or domestic is not very rich. 2.1 Reviews on the Studies of A Thou
6、sand Splendid Suns AbroadIn the first week following its release, A Thousand Splendid Suns sold over one million copies, becoming a number-one New York Times bestseller for fifteen weeks. Time magazines Lev Grossman placed it at number three in the Top 10 Fiction Books of 2022, and praised it as a “
7、dense, rich, pressure-packed guide to enduring the unendurable.” Jonathan Yardley said in the Washington Post “Book World”, “Just in case youre wondering whether Khaled Hosseinis A Thousand Splendid Suns is as good as The Kite Runner, heres the answer: No. Its better.” As for foreign researches, Dr.
8、 Md. Sahidul Islam has written a dissertation called “Gender Discrimination and The Wretched Condition of Women in Arundhati Roys The God of Small Things and Khaled Hosseinis A Thousand Splendid Suns” in Arts & Education International Research Journal in 2022. In that dissertation, the author said:”
9、In a nutshell, Khaled Hosseini have raised a series of serious questions regarding the safeguard of women in patriarchal society. At the same time, the authors have given partial solution to the problem through the women characters in the novels who hinted at a drastic change through their protest t
10、o bring a revolutionary change in the society. This is how Hosseini brought into light the gender inequality in the society as reflected in A Thousand Splendid Suns.” “The impact of ideology on lexical choices in literary translation: A case study of A Thousand Splendid Suns” is written by Fatemeh M
11、ansourabadi and Amin Karimnia from Akdeniz Language Studies Conference in 2022. This dissertation attempts to discover ideological differences between Hosein A Thousand Splendid Suns and its two Persian translations, by Ganji and Soleimani and Ghebrai. According to Fairclough, ideology in discourse
12、is encoded in the lexical, grammatical and textual items and changes in these items indicate different ideology. Hence, lexical choices of the source book and the two translations were analyzed based on Faircloughs approach to investigate ideological differences between them. The results of chi-squa
13、re revealed that there were no ideological difference between the source text and its two translations. Moreover, the translators selected similar vocabularies for representing the ideology of the original author. 2.2 Reviews on the Studies of A Thousand Splendid Suns at HomeCompared with the litera
14、ture review of the novel abroad, the number of domestic research on the novel is remarkable after the Chinese version translated by Li Jihong published into Chinese market. Most scholars mainly make research on the following perspectives such as ecologist perspective, new historicism and growth theme.“An Eco-feminist Reading of A Thousand Splendid Suns” is written by Jiang(2022) from Liaoning University. Her essay uses the theory of ecological feminism to reveal the control and destruction of women in patriarchal society and the destruction of nature by war. And her es3Word版本
