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Poetry of the Taliban / translated by Mirwais Rahmany & Hamid Stanikzai ; edited and introduced by Alex Strick van Linschoten & Felix Kuehn ; preface by Faisal Devji.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: Original language: Pushto Publication details: New York : Columbia University Press, c2012.Description: 247 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780231704045
  • 9780231801164
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PK6814.5. E54.
Contents:
Contents: About the translations, editors and author of the preface (p. 8)—Acknowledgements (p. 10)—Preface by Faisal Devji (p. 11)—Introduction-Ghazi Portraits (p. 29)—The poems (p. 49)—Glossary of names and terms (p. 215)—Notes (p. 227)—Select bibliography (p. 243).
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Notes Date due Barcode Item holds
Monograph Monograph Afghanistan Centre at Kabul University 4 Available Only one copy is donated by Liza Schuster. 3ACKU000530625
Monograph Monograph Afghanistan Centre at Kabul University Available 3ACKU000356765
Monograph Monograph Afghanistan Centre at Kabul University 2 Available 00035675
Monograph Monograph Afghanistan Centre at Kabul University PK6814.5.E54.R34 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available Only one copy of this book is Donated by author, Alex Strick van Linschoten. 3ACKU000352822
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“This extraordinary collection is remarkable as a literary project uncovering a seam of war poetry few will know ever existed”—cover page.

“Afghanistan has a rich and ancient tradition of epic poetry celebrating resistance to foreign invasion and occupation. This extraordinary collection is remarkable as a literary project-uncovering a seam of war poetry few will know ever existed, and presenting to us for the first time the black turbaned Wilfred Owens of Wardak, but it is also an important political project : humanizing and giving voice to the aspirations, aesthetics, emotions and dreams of the fighters of a much-caricatured and still little understood resistance movement that…”—back cover.

“Includes bibliography”—(p. 243-247).

Contents: About the translations, editors and author of the preface (p. 8)—Acknowledgements (p. 10)—Preface by Faisal Devji (p. 11)—Introduction-Ghazi Portraits (p. 29)—The poems (p. 49)—Glossary of names and terms (p. 215)—Notes (p. 227)—Select bibliography (p. 243).

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