Afghanistan in Ink: Literature Between Diaspora and Nation

by Nile Green

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199327769
• ISBN13: 9780199327768
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.7" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher