Images of Afghanistan: exploring afghan culture through art and literature

Images of Afghanistan, an edited collection in the non-fiction cultural/ social genre, provides the first-ever overview of the art and literature of Afghanistan. 32 chapters on art, music, film, proverbs, short stories, poetry, cartoons, and folktales in popular style offer key insights into the complexities of Afghan culture and dispel the misperception that Afghanistan is only a havenfor terrorists and drug dealers. INDICE: Contents List:; Foreword; Preface; Editors' Note; Acknowledgements; PART 1: INTRODUCTORY CHAPTERS ; 1.: Stepping Inside: Culture through the Voices of Art and Literature; Arley Loewen; 2.: A Guided Tour of Afghanistan'sHistory; Jonathan Lee; PART 2: DARI LITERATURE; 3.: A Thousand Years of Persian Jewels: The Classical Persian Poet; Arley Loewen; 4.: Rhyme and Verse in Politics: Persian Poetry in Afghanistan since 1900; Bashir Sakhawarz; 5.:. They Constantly Sing with Grief: Eleven Modern Poets; Arley Loewen, with Partaw Nadiri; 6.: Voices from Behind Window and Walls: An Overview of Dari Short Stories; Arley Loewen; 7.: Glimpses Behind Windows and Walls: Nine Short Stories from 20th Century Dari Fiction; Arley Loewen; 8.: Crawling Worms, Blooming Flowers, and Poplar Trees: Dari Children's Rhymes; Asadullah Shour, with Arley Loewen; 9.: Tea First, Then We Fight!: Dari Proverbs; Juan Cardenas; PART 3: PASHTOLITERATURE; 10.:. Guns and Roses: The Two Strands of Pashto Poetry; Rob Sampson; 11.:. I Love My Land!: Contemporary Pashto Poetry; Habibullah Rafi, with Arley Loewen; 12.:. Traditions Live On: The Modern Pashto Short Story in Afghanistan; Muhammad Zarin Anzur, with Arley Loewen; 13.: The Pinkie Finger says 'Let's go!': Pashto Lullabies and Nursery Rhymes; Muhammad Nabi Tadbir, with Arley Loewen; 14.:. Prisms of Light on Pashtun Life and Culture: Pashto Proverbs;Len Bartlotti; 15.: Tit for Tat: A Selection of Pashto Proverbs from Rohi Mataluna; Len Bartlotti; PART 4: THEMES OF CULTURE; 16.: What Do People Say?: Reputation in Persio-Afghan Culture; Arley Loewen; 17.: Please be my Patron: How Firdawsi was Embittered by Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni; Arley Loewen; 18.:. Longing for Home, but How to Get There?: The Poet Hafiz and the 'Problem of the Heart'; Arley Loewen; 19.:. Love for the Sake of Love: Medieval and Modern Love Stories from Afghanistan and Beyond; Arley Loewen; PART 5: TRADITIONAL ART; 20.:Crossroads of Cultures and the Silk Roads: The Archaeological and Architectural Heritage of Afghanistan; Jonathan Lee; 21.:. God Taught Man by the Pen: Calligraphy in Afghan Culture; Leslee Michelson; 22.:. Silent Beauty within Alleys and Walls: The Old City of Kabul; Rory Stewart; 23.: Carving a Niche in Culture: The Noble Art of Woodcarving; Hermione Calvocoressi and Mohammad Yousef Suratgar; 24.: Shaping Afghanistan: Traditional Pottery and Economic Reconstruction; Esther Svensson, Noah Coburn, and Ustad Honaryar; PART 6: PERFORMING ANDFINE ARTS ; 25.:. Modern Sounds, Ancient Words: Singing and Music in Afghanistan; Arley Loewen, with Vaheed Kaacemy and Sediq Qiam; 26.:. Drawing Back the Curtain: Art and Artists of Afghanistan; Muhammad Alam Farhad, with Arley Loewen; 27.:. From Love to Osama: Film in Afghanistan; Arley Loewen, with Timur Hakimyar and Jawansher Haydari; PART 7: POTPOURRI ; 28.: East Meets West: Two Afghan Authors Who Write in English; Arley Loewen; 29.: Mullah Nasruddin: The Legendary Wise Fool; Arley Loe

• ISBN: 978-0-19-547795-5
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 350
• Fecha Publicación: 08/07/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés