1. Introduction: Afghan Literature between Diaspora and Nation
Nile Green
2. Modernizing, Nationalizing, Internationalizing: How Mahmud Tarzi's Hybrid Identity Transformed Afghan Literature
Nushin Arbabzadah
3. The Afghan Afterlife of Phileas Fogg: Space and Time in the Literature of Afghan Travel
Nile Green
4. Demarcating Pashto: Cross-border Pashto Literature and the Afghan State, 1880-1930
Thomas Wide
5. Ambiguities of Orality and Literacy, Territory and Border Crossings: Public Activism and Pashto Literature in Afghanistan, 1930-2010
James Caron
6. The Poetry and Prose of Pazhwak: A Critical Look at Traditional Afghanistan
Chaled Malekyar
7. Mastering the Ego Monster: Azhdaha-ye Khodi as an Allegory of History
Wali Ahmadi
8. Lyric Realism: Poetic Reflections of Refugee Life in Iran
Zuzanna Olszewska
9. Afghanistan and the Persian Epic Shahnama: Historical Agency and the Epic Imagination in Afghan and Afghan-American Literature
Shafiq Shamel
10. Gnomics: Proverbs, Aphorisms, Metaphors, Key Words and Epithets in Afghan Discourses of War and Instability
Margaret A. Mills