Rhetorics and politics in Afghan traditional storytelling

by Margaret A. Mills

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Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991 . 8vo, pp. xi, 5 , 388, 4 ; full yellow cloth; fine in fine dust jacket. This book presents an ethnopoetic translation and an interpretation of an evening of story-telling which took place in rural Afghanistan in 1975. Three years before the Marxist coup, two Muslim elders from Herat province were asked by a Marxist subgovernor to spend an evening telling traditional stories to an American woman. Item

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