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This chapter explores literary representation of trauma in the context of post911 afghanistan through analysis of these two texts. This is an intense and sad story of people being controlled by their. It would be no surprise if trees and vines of afghanistan suspended. With great attention to detail and beautiful scenes that explore the daily rhythms of life in pakistan, aslam creates an exotic and timeless world whose traditional rituals are played out against an ominous backdrop of faraway civil wars, assassinations, changing regimes, and religious tensions. In the wasted vigil, aslams portrayal of the conlict in afghanistan is refracted through the prisms of geology and archeology, with the overarching motifs of.
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