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Shelter for the Night : On Afghanistan, Language, and Detours

Shelter for the Night : On Afghanistan, Language, and Detours

by Duke University Press

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MPN9781478033622
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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, 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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