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 (195 -). The play depicts the suffering of the English protagonist, Homebody, from displacement within her homeland and 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 and Dennis Walder to examine how nostalgia for the lost time and the lost homeland may force the colonizer to recall the history and seek home in the land of the colonized.
عمر موسى, غادة مصطفى, فاروق, جيهان, حواش, مني, & رضا نصر, رانيا. (2024). Nostalgia for Afghanistan’s History in Tony Kushner’s Homebody/Kabul. بحوث, 4(1), 1-21. doi: 10.21608/buhuth.2024.265481.1634
MLA
غادة مصطفى عمر موسى; جيهان فاروق; مني حواش; رانيا رضا نصر. "Nostalgia for Afghanistan’s History in Tony Kushner’s Homebody/Kabul". بحوث, 4, 1, 2024, 1-21. doi: 10.21608/buhuth.2024.265481.1634
HARVARD
عمر موسى, غادة مصطفى, فاروق, جيهان, حواش, مني, رضا نصر, رانيا. (2024). 'Nostalgia for Afghanistan’s History in Tony Kushner’s Homebody/Kabul', بحوث, 4(1), pp. 1-21. doi: 10.21608/buhuth.2024.265481.1634
VANCOUVER
عمر موسى, غادة مصطفى, فاروق, جيهان, حواش, مني, رضا نصر, رانيا. Nostalgia for Afghanistan’s History in Tony Kushner’s Homebody/Kabul. بحوث, 2024; 4(1): 1-21. doi: 10.21608/buhuth.2024.265481.1634
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