Rhetorics and Politics in Afghan Traditional Storytelling

by Margaret Ann Mills

This book presents an ethnopoetic translation and an interpretation of an evening of story­telling which took place in rural Afghanistan in 1975. Three years before the Marxist coup, two Muslim elders from Herat province were asked by a Marxist subgovernor to spend an evening telling traditional stories to an American woman.

The storytellers wittily integrated themes of sense and nonsense, gender and sexuality, religion and public and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812281993
• ISBN13: 9780812281996
• Release Date: November 1991
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 3.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary