Emasculation to Remasculinisation: Hypermasculinity in The Kite Runner The Kite Runner is an insight into the shades of masculinity. Hegemonic masculinity, as an ideology, sanctifies violence and hatred and posits a danger of disappearance of humankind. In this paper, my attempt is to analyze one of the characteristics of hegemonic masculinity--violence-- and to show how the principal character, Amir stands for an alternative benevolent masculinity that does not give space to violence and destruction. The second part of the novel presents Afghanistan that is in massive unrest. The political, economic and social ethos of the region is in a state of violent crisis. There are factions along the lines of class, caste, religion and ethnicity within the boundaries of the nations and in each case, the dominant factions struggles to secure their political economic and social dominance and appropriate the resources of the marginalized. Amir recalls: Rahim Khan told me how, when t