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After the Recent Work of Merguerian and Najmabadi, Najmabadi, and Milani (in this volume), it can be little surprise that the topic of women's tricks (makr-i zan) is explicit and pervasive in traditional oral narrative in Persian-speaking communities. In afsānah or fictional folktales, makr-i zan serves as a generic title for a large, but shifting, corpus of individual tales which are perceived by their tellers as primarily concerned with the topos (though the tales may be otherwise identified or characterized by other sources, including literary ones). Indeed, from the general perspective of a strongly patriarchal popular ideology which promotes male authority over female action, any and all female-initiated action ("female agency") may be construed, explicitly or implicitly, as subversive of the ideal order of patriarchy. While the female actor and female agency are marked as "other" (than ideal) by the topos (or stereotype), women as well as men perform tales about makr-i zan. This paper begins the task of sorting out perspectives on this "otherness" and agency as reflected in the repertoires of various male and female traditional storytellers, in individual oral performances in which makr-i zan are central.

This book, first published in 1990, studies the oral fiction entertainments of Afghanistan by focusing on aspects of the oral narrative process which can be observed in individual performances.

Introduction : orientalism and war / Tarak Barkawi and Keith Stanski --. - Shocked by war : the non-politics of orientalism / Arjun Chowdhury --. - American orientalism at war in Korea and the United States : a hegemony of racism, repression, and amnesia / Bruce Cumings --. - Terror, the imperial presidency, and American heroism / Susan Jeffords --. - Can the insurgent speak? / Hugh Gusterson --. - Colonial wars, postcolonial specters : the anxiety of domination / Qu-nh N. Phaam and Himadeep R. Muppidi --. - Orientalism in the machine / Josef Teboho Ansorge --. - Dis/ordering the orient : scopic regimes and modern war / Derek Gregory --. - Nesting orientalisms at war : World War II and the 'memory war' in Eastern Europe / Maria Mølksoo --. - Victimhood as agency : Afghan women's memoirs / Margaret A. Mills --. - Fanon's 'Guerre des ondes': resisting the call of orientalism / John Mowitt --. - The pleasures of imperialism and the pink elephant : torture, sex, orientalism / Patricia Owens --. - Afterword / Patrick Porter

Reaching beyond sensational headlines, Land of the Unconquerable at last offers a three-dimensional portrait of Afghan women. In a series of wide-ranging, deeply reflective essays, accomplished scholars, humanitarian workers, politicians, and journalists—most with extended experience inside Afghanistan—examine the realities of life for women in both urban and rural settings. They address topics including food security, sex work, health, marriage, education, poetry, politics, prisoners, and community development. Eschewing stereotypes about the burqa, the contributors focus instead on women's empowerment and agency, and their struggles for peace and justice in the face of a brutal ongoing war. A fuller picture of Afghanistan's women past and present emerges, leading to social policy suggestions and pragmatic solutions for a peaceful future