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Book Review
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2015
Overview
[...]as Wide explains, efforts to make Pashto an Afghan national language were undermined by an efflorescence of Pashto language and literature, particularly poetry, among the Pashtuns living across the Durand Line in British India, because this literature often evoked an inclusive cross-border Pashtun solidarity. [...]as Caron explains in Chapter 5, this Pashto nationalist poetry could be understood as a critique not just of British imperialism, but of local power relations as well. [...]if Afghans have adopted new literary forms such as the novel, sometimes with striking commercial success (Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner for instance), they have also continued to reference traditional sources, such as the Shahnama, the heroic epic written by Ferdowsi in the later-tenth and early-eleventh centuries ce. [...]in Chapter 10 Margaret A. Mills points out that for many people Afghan culture remains predominantly oral, and discusses proverbs and aphorisms.
