TY  - BOOK
AU  - UPenn, James Caron.
TI  - Harnessing oral poetry as modern mass communication : the case of Malang Jan, hegemonic power, and the configuration of Pashtun public-sphere nationalism in mid 20th century eastern Afghanistan / James Caron, UPenn
U1  - Pamphlet  PK 6561 .I5 .U97 /2007  
CY  - [Afghanistan?] : Working Copy, 2007.
KW  - Afghanistan – Poetry.
KW  - Afghanistan – Poetry – Pashto
KW  - Afghanistan – In literature
KW  - Pashto poetry – 20th century – History and criticism
KW  - Pashto poetry – History and criticism
N1  - Caption title; January 2007; Includes bibliographical references; Summary: This essay has attempted to tease apart the layers of discourse which came to be inscribed on Malang Jan's work in order to make a couple of larger statements. First, the case of Malang Jan calls into question a dichotomy between discourse and the objective conditions of that discourse's production, circulation, and consumption. Through this, one can gain a deep insight into the mutually articulative links between a discourse's substance, an intellectual's subjectivity, a specific communications field, and the broader political and economic configuration of a state aspiring to be nation-state on terms dictated by its rulers…—(p. 30)
ER  -