Buch
Monografie
Shelter for the night : on Afghanistan, language, and detours
Verfasst von:
Mojaddedi, Fatima
Durham ; London:
Duke University Press
,
2026
,
247 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Frauensolidarität | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Mojaddedi, Fatima |
| Jahr: | 2026 |
| ISBN: | 1478038535 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| Shelter for the Night is an ethnographic meditation on language and psychic life in 2010s Afghanistan, where militarized violence has collapsed social worlds. Across Kabul and the countryside, in poetic and probing style, the book unpacks the precarious relationship between language, violence, and the self. As social and political worlds fracture through militarized violence, economic speculation, interpersonal sabotage, and ruptures in shared understanding, people are set on unexpected detours to discontinuity. Encounters in political life, love, and translation become fragmented, difficult to parse, and entangled in symbolic violence. Yet amid the harsh realities of contemporary life in Kabul, Fatima Mojaddedi finds moments of wonder and rich inner lives of reflexivity, understanding, and social connection. From narratives of modernist ambition and political violence to tragic romance and urbanite translators and their rural interlocutors, Shelter for the Night looks at the challenges of articulating the unspeakable to make a bold claim for the importance of thinking about the contemporary world starting from Afghanistan. | |
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| Prologue. Open Windows and Houses ix Introduction. Cracks and Detours 1 Part I. Subject to Others 29 1. What’s the Use Between Death and Glory? 31 2. Rumors of Love 67 Part II. On Circuitous Pathways 111 3. The Alternation of World and Word 113 4. Discourses of Another Other 136 5. Between Ground and Sky 159 Epilogue. A Vita Detoured 179 Acknowledgments 189 Notes 195 Bibliography 231 Index 241 | |
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