This book analyzes the role literature and poetic sensibility played in colonial British and American writings on Afghanistan from the nineteenth through the twenty-first centuries, ending with Afghan immigrant authors, who adapt colonial myths as anti-colonial strategy, and post US-War authors, who more fundamentally re-imagine old narratives.
This book analyzes the role literature and poetic sensibility played in colonial British and American writings on Afghanistan from the nineteenth through the twenty-first centuries, ending with Afghan immigrant authors, who adapt colonial myths as anti-colonial strategy, and post US-War authors, who more fundamentally re-imagine old narratives.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Introduction Chapter 1: Scandals Old and New Alexander Gardner and Greg Mortenson Chapter 2: Drawing Boundaries: Early East India Co. Writers George Forster Mountstuart Elphinstone Alexander Burnes and Arthur Conolly Chapter 3: Oriental Tales: from Poems and Legends to the Novel Charles Masson James Abbott Sir Mortimer Durand Chapter 4: Hybridity Frontier Marriages and the New Woman: S. S. Thorburn Maud Diver Lillias Hamilton and Morag Murray Abdullah Chapter 5: The Romance of Return: Anti-Imperialist Nostalgia and Writings of the 9/11 Era Jason Elliot Rory Stuart Tamim Ansary Saira Shah Khaled Hosseini Conclusion: Lessons Learned? New Fiction from Afghanistan and how to write about Afghanistan Bibliography About the author
Introduction Chapter 1: Scandals Old and New Alexander Gardner and Greg Mortenson Chapter 2: Drawing Boundaries: Early East India Co. Writers George Forster Mountstuart Elphinstone Alexander Burnes and Arthur Conolly Chapter 3: Oriental Tales: from Poems and Legends to the Novel Charles Masson James Abbott Sir Mortimer Durand Chapter 4: Hybridity Frontier Marriages and the New Woman: S. S. Thorburn Maud Diver Lillias Hamilton and Morag Murray Abdullah Chapter 5: The Romance of Return: Anti-Imperialist Nostalgia and Writings of the 9/11 Era Jason Elliot Rory Stuart Tamim Ansary Saira Shah Khaled Hosseini Conclusion: Lessons Learned? New Fiction from Afghanistan and how to write about Afghanistan Bibliography About the author
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