Afghanistan in ink
Subtitle: literature between diaspora and nation
By: Nile Green and Nushin Arbabzadah, editors
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780231703420
Subjects: Civilization; Pushto literature; Persian literature; In literature; History and criticism; Dari literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Afghan literature between diaspora and nation / Nile Green; title: Modernizing, nationalizing, internationalizing: how Mahmud Tarzi's hybrid identity transformed Afghan literature / Nushin Arbabzadah; title: The Afghan afterlife of Phileas Fogg: space and time in the literature of Afghan travel / Nile Green; title: Demarcating Pashto: cross-border Pashto literature and the Afghan state, 1880/1930 / Thomas Wide; title: Ambiguities of orality and literacy, territory and border crossings: public activism and Pashto literature in Afghanistan 1930/2010 / James Caron; title: The poetry and prose of Pazhwak: a critical look at traditional Afghanistan / Chaled Malekyar; title: Mastering the ego monster: Azhdaha-Ye Khodi as an allegory of history / Wali Ahmadi; title: Lyric realism: poetic reflections of refugee life in Iran / Zuzanna Olszewska; title: Afghanistan and the persian epic Shahnama: historical agency and the epic imagination in Afghan and Afghan-american literature / Shafiq Shamel; title: Gnomics: proverbs, aphorisms, metaphors, key words and epithets in Afghan discourses of war and instability / Margaret A. Mills.