Afghanistan In Ink uses a wide and largely unknown corpus of
twentieth 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.
Drawing on an abundance of Afghan language sources, the chapters by
leading international experts reveal a disruptive twentieth century
dynamic between the importing of multiple conflicting ideologies
through literary globalisation and the destabilisation of the state
as a consequence of these literary and ideological flows. As the
first scholarly survey of modern Afghan literature, Afghanistan In
Ink places the twentieth century's itinerant and exiled Afghan
writers into their transnational contexts to trace Afghan artistic
and ideological interactions with Muslim and Western nations. The
volume emphasises the study of literatures in their social and
political contexts. With its extensive contextualising
introduction, this book provides both specialists and
non-specialists with unique 'inside' perspectives on the
interweaving of religious, political and cultural debates that have
shaped modern Afghan society.
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