Afghanistan in ink : literature between diaspora and nation / Nile Green & Nushin Arbabzadah (editors).

Abstract: 'Afghanistan in Ink' uses a wide and largely unknown corpus of 20th century Afghan Dari and Pashto literature to show not only how Afghans have reflected on their modern history, but also how the state has repeatedly sought to dominate the ideological contours of that history through the patronage or exile of writers.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents: List of illustrations—Note on the authors—Preface and acknowledgements—1. Introduction : Afghan literature between Diaspora and Nation / Nile Green—2. Modernizing, nationalizing, internationalizing : how Mahmud Tarzi’s Hybrid indentify transformed Afghan literature / Nushin Arbabzadah—3. The Afghan afterlife of Phileas Fogg : space and time in the literature of Afghan travel / Nile Green—4. Demarcating Pashto : cross-border Pashto literature and the Afghan state, 1880-1930 / Thomas Wide—5. Ambiguities of Orality and literacy, territory and border crossings : public activism and Pashto literature in Afghanistan, 1930-2010 / James Caron—6. The poetry and prose of Pazhwak : a critical look at traditional Afghanistan / Chaled Malekyar—7. Mastering the Ego Monster : Azhdaha-ye Khodi as an allegory of history / Wali Ahmadi—8. Lyric Realism : poetic reflections of refugee life in Iran / Zuzanna Olszewska—9. Afghanistan and the Persian epic Shahnama : historical agency and the epic imagination in Afghan and Afghan-American literature / Shafiq Shamel—10. Gnomics : proverbs, aphorisms, metaphors, key words and epithets in Afghan discourses of war and instability / Margaret A. Mills—Notes—Index.

English