Gendered Pain during The War on Terror in A Door in The Earth

Authors : Betül Ateşci Koçak

Pages : 358-378

Doi:10.33708/ktc.1301494

View : 38 | Download : 23

Publication Date : 2024-11-30

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :September 11 and the U.S. war in Afghanistan have created huge changes in world politics. The twenty-year war started with its initiative to save Afghan women from the Taliban and give back their rights, which later proved to be nothing but more pain and suffering for them. Amy Waldman’s second novel A Door in The Earth (2019) displays realistic depiction of civil life during the War on Terror with a female perspective that centers on the effects of power politics on Afghan women whose lives are driven into more painful experiences each day. An author and former journalist Amy Waldman, who spent five years covering Afghanistan during the Afghan war, largely uses the Afghan women’s pain to fictionalise the reality of the country. Since the history of humanity is inextricably linked to the history of war, both of which are written from a male perspective, this study sheds light on the Western tendency to use the suffering of Afghan women to ensure the continuation of Western, and thus American power, through the works of dedicated postcolonial theorists in the field.
Keywords : 11 Eylül, Teröre Karşı Savaş, Afgan kadınlar, kolonyalizm, postkolonyal feminizm