Harnessing oral poetry as modern mass communication : the case of Malang Jan, hegemonic power, and the configuration of Pashtun public-sphere nationalism in mid 20th century eastern Afghanistan / James Caron, UPenn.
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TextLanguage: Publication details: [Afghanistan?] : Working Copy, 2007.Description: 35 p. ; 30 cmSubject(s): DDC classification: - Pamphlet PK 6561 .I5 .U97 /2007
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Caption title.
January 2007.
Includes bibliographical references.
Summary: This essay has attempted to tease apart the layers of discourse which came to be inscribed on Malang Jan's work in order to make a couple of larger statements. First, the case of Malang Jan calls into question a dichotomy between discourse and the objective conditions of that discourse's production, circulation, and consumption. Through this, one can gain a deep insight into the mutually articulative links between a discourse's substance, an intellectual's subjectivity, a specific communications field, and the broader political and economic configuration of a state aspiring to be nation-state on terms dictated by its rulers…—(p. 30).