{"product_id":"shelter-for-the-night-on-afghanistan-language-and-detours-paperback-softback-9781478038535","title":"Shelter for the Night; On Afghanistan, Language, and Detours (Paperback \/ softback) 9781478038535","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eShelter for the Night\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eOn Afghanistan, Language, and Detours\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eFatima Mojaddedi (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781478038535\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 24 March 2026\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e270 pages, 1 illustration\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.363 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e“This is a brilliant and deeply ethical book. The author offers a series of much-needed case studies from Afghanistan that present a beautiful and poignant, as well as heart-breaking, series of ethnographic reflections on the impossibilities of representation in wartime. I found this to be a truly remarkable ethnography, the sophistication of which is matched only by its profound commitment to a shared humanity.”—\u003cb\u003eSeema Golestaneh, author of\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eUnknowing and the Everyday\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Seeking the truth of the Kabul lie Fatima Mojaddedi surrounds herself with theorists, like any good anthropologist. But she does not let these men (Freud, Foucault, Benjamin) get in the way of her sisterly journey. Going in, I knew little about Afghanistan. Reading her book, however, I wished to be there, and indeed, learned I was born there.”—\u003cb\u003eRudolf Mrázek, author of\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Certain Age and Complete Lives of Camp People\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelter for the Night\u003c\/i\u003e is an ethnographic meditation on language and psychic life in 2010s Afghanistan, where militarized violence has collapsed social worlds. Across Kabul and the countryside, in poetic and probing style, the book unpacks the precarious relationship between language, violence, and the self. As social and political worlds fracture through militarized violence, economic speculation, interpersonal sabotage, and ruptures in shared understanding, people are set on unexpected detours to discontinuity. Encounters in political life, love, and translation become fragmented, difficult to parse, and entangled in symbolic violence. Yet amid the harsh realities of contemporary life in Kabul, Mojaddedi finds moments of wonder and rich inner lives of reflexivity, understanding, and social connection. From narratives of modernist ambition and political violence to tragic romance and urbanite translators and their rural interlocutors, \u003ci\u003eShelter for the Night\u003c\/i\u003e looks at the challenges of articulating the unspeakable to make a bold claim for the importance of thinking about the contemporary world starting from Afghanistan.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePrologue. Open Windows and Houses  ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. Cracks and Detours  1\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Subject to Others  29\u003cbr\u003e 1. What’\u003cbr\u003es the Use Between Death and Glory?  31\u003cbr\u003e 2. Rumors of Love  67\u003cbr\u003e Part II. On Circuitous Pathways  111\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Alternation of World and Word  113\u003cbr\u003e 4. Discourses of Another Other  136\u003cbr\u003e 5. Between Ground and Sky  159\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue. A Vita Detoured  179\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments  189\u003cbr\u003e Notes  195\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  231\u003cbr\u003e Index  241\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52591027159320,"sku":"9781478038535","price":19.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/shelter-for-the-night-on-afghanistan-language-and-detours-paperback-softback-9781478038535","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}