Search for dissertations about: "Pashto literature"

Found 1 swedish dissertation containing the words Pashto literature.

2. 1. Voices at the Borders, Prose on the Margins : Exploring the Contemporary Pashto Short Story in a Context of War and Crisis

   Author : Anders Widmark; Carina Jahani; Christina Oesterheld; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Pashto; Pashtun; Pashto literature; short story; war and crisis; poeticised communities; terrorist; madman; female agency; disillusion; Iranska språk; Iranian Languages;

   Abstract : This dissertation is a study of contemporary Pashto prose writing in a context of war and crisis based on a corpus of digitally published and/or printed short stories from the 1990s onwards. Out of this larger corpus, 16 stories have been selected and analysed under four topics: "The Terrorist", Female agency: Representations of and by, "The Madman", and Axtar: Longing for peace or imaging disillusion. READ MORE