Afghanistan Remembers
Gendered Narrations of Violence and Culinary Practices

Parin Dossa (Author)

9781442615373

Paperback / softback, published 17 July 2014

192 pages, 8 b&w illustrations, 1 b&w table
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.2 cm, 0.3 kg

"Dossa’s approach is to look at the memory of violence among women in Afghanistan and in Canada, which demonstrates how the act of remembering and sharing history can empower women and reshape and re-appropriate global narratives about conflict. Less a study of civic groups and more a reflection on the women who inhabit them, her text demonstrates some of the ways disenfranchised individuals can use everyday practices around things like food to resist the relentless oppression of the memory of violence." - Noah Coburn, Bennington College (PoLAR Online)

Although extensive literature exists on the violence of war, little attention has been given to the ways in which this violence becomes entrenched and normalized in the inner recesses of everyday life. In Afghanistan Remembers, Parin Dossa examines Afghan women’s recall of violence through memories and food practices in their homeland and its diaspora. Her work reveals how the suffering and trauma of violence has been rendered socially invisible following decades of life in a war-zone.

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