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Modern Persian Literature in Afghanistan - Anomalous Visions of History and Form (Hardcover)
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Modern Persian Literature in Afghanistan - Anomalous Visions of History and Form (Hardcover)
Series: Iranian Studies
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With the unleashing of the "War on Terror" in the aftermath of
9/11, Afghanistan has become prominent in the news. However, we
need to appreciate that no substantive understanding of
contemporary history, politics and society of this country can be
achieved without a thorough analysis of the Afghan encounter with
cultural and literary modernity and modernization. Modern Persian
Literature in Afghanistan does just that. The book offers a
balanced and interdisciplinary analysis of the rich and admirable
contemporary poetry and fiction of a land long tormented by wars
and invasions. It sets out to demonstrate that, within the
trajectory of the union between modern aesthetic imagination and
politics, creativity and production, and representation and
history, the modernist intervention enabled many contemporary poets
and writers of fiction to resist the overt politicization of the
literary field, without evading politics or disavowing the modern
state. The interpretative moves and nuanced readings of a series of
literary texts make this book a major contribution to a rather
neglected area of research and study. Winner of the Iranian World
Prize for Book of the Year in Islamics Studies 2009
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