「家」的概念看似具備了正面含意：不僅是一個提供安全、穩定生活的地方，更為重要的是，「家」賦予了我們不可或缺的歸屬感。然而，不可忽略的是「家」儘管提供歸屬感給居住者，卻也因而潛藏著「無家化」（unhomeliness）的危機。事實上，我們認知中所稱作「家」的空間，是在一種納入與排除的機制上運作，支配了居住者與家的聯繫。因此，家具備了敵意與親密的雙重性，我們除了從「家」得到歸屬感，也背負著被「家」驅逐的可能性。
本論文解讀卡勒德‧胡賽尼的小說《追風箏的孩子》反駁了「家」之再現的單一論述。在小說中，作者將我們所熟悉的「家」的論述問題化，並且重新定義家的概念。小說透過主角阿米爾（Amir）成長後回顧性的敘述角度，呈現了「家」如何被視為一個意識形態的論述，更如一種包袱，命其居住者遵從域內的規則。然而，《追風箏的孩子》一書也以主角的遷離為解套，探討離開家鄉如何動搖了移民者對「家」的認同與歸屬感，使得「家」的再現論述重新注入新意。

When we think of home, the term is generally associated with the configuration of a place of security, stability and above all, a place that endows one with the sense of belongingness. However, it is imperative to consider the sense of belongingness that one obtains from home is always underscored by a sense of unhomeliness. As a matter in fact, the space we referred to as “home” is built upon the pattern of inclusion and exclusion that dictates our affiliation to home. Therefore, “home” is equally hostile as the sense of belonging we obtain from being at home is always threatened by the possibility of expulsion from home. This thesis reads the problematic representation of home in Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner as a rejection to a unitary notion of home while seeking for a reconceptualization of home. Amir’s retrospective narration divulges home as an ideologically constructed discourse where the inhabitants are compelled to conformity. Also, The Kite Runner reveals how the displacement from home unsettles one’s sense of identity and belongingness to home which in turn instills a sense of newness to the reconfiguration of the very of notion of home.

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