Cultural and Political Hegemony in Abawi's The Secret Sky

Abstract

Hegemony is the domination of a governing class over the values, beliefs and the perceptions of a culturally diverse society. Cultural conflicts between various tribes of a community wherein the dominant tribe claims its authority either by imposing its own ideologies or by demeaning the cultural values of other tribes. When a dominant group fails to acquire consensual control over another group, which they consider inferior, it lost its hegemony. This study delimits Abawi's The Secret Sky and Antonio Gramsci’s theorization of hegemon to argue how hegemonic powers in Afghanistan operate on political and cultural levels. This study is significant for its (con) textual approach to highlight the purpose of foreign invasions to hegemonies the culture of Afghan locale.