Poetry of the Taliban (Record no. 61735)
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| fixed length control field | 02622nam a22001817a 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 978935095027 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 891.5931 |
| Item number | POE |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Poetry of the Taliban |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | Gurgaon |
| Name of publisher | Hachette India |
| Year of publication | 2012 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | 247p. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | These are poems of love and war and friendship and tell us more about Afghanistan than a million news reports. Anybody claiming to be an Afghan expert should read this book before giving their next opinion.' – Muhammad Hanif 'Afghanistan has a rich and ancient tradition of epic poetry celebrating resistance to foreign invasion and occupation. This extraordinary collection is remarkable as a literary project – uncovering a seam of war poetry few will know ever existed, and presenting to us for the first time the black turbaned Wilfred Owens of Wardak. But it is also an important political project: humanising and giving voice to the aspirations, aesthetics, emotions and dreams of the fighters of a much-caricatured and still little-understood resistance movement that is about to defeat yet another foreign occupation.’ – William Dalrymple Overlooked by many as mere propaganda, poetry offers an unfettered insight into the wider worldview of the Afghan Taliban. This collection of over two hundred poems draws upon Afghan tradition and the recent past as much as upon a long history of Persian, Urdu and Pashto verse. The contrast between the severity of their ideology and the Taliban's long-standing poetic tradition is nothing short of remarkable. Unrequited love, vengeance, the thrill of battle, religion and nationalism — even a yearning for non-violence — are expressed through images of wine, powerful women and pastoral beauty, providing a fascinating insight into the hearts and minds of these redoubtable adversaries. Taliban verse is fervent, and very modern in its criticism of human rights abuses by all parties to the conflict. Whether describing an air strike on a wedding party or lamenting, ‘We did all of this to ourselves’, it is concerned not with politics, but with identity, and a full, textured, deeply conflicted humanity. It is such impassioned descriptions – sorrowfully defeated and enraged, triumphant, bitterly powerless or bitingly satirical – and not the austere arguments of myriad analysts that will ultimately define and endure as a record of the war in Afghanistan. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Pushto poetry |
| -- | Taliban |
| -- | Taliban members -writings |
| -- | Afhan Literature |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Mirwais Rahmany,Tr. |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Hamid Stanikzai,Tr. |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Linschoten,Alex Strick van,Ed. |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Kuehn,Felix,Ed. |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | BK |
| 952 ## - LOCATION AND ITEM INFORMATION (KOHA) | |
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| Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Cost, normal purchase price | Full call number | Accession Number | Koha item type |
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| Kannur University Central Library | Kannur University Central Library | Stack | 02/09/2021 | 499.00 | 891.5931 POE | 53937 | BK |