From: Guavamoon9-AT-aol.com Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2000 00:34:36 EDT Subject: Afghan Anthology: Call for Submissions (Please Note New Address) Call for Submissions: Drop by Drop, We Make a River: A Collection of Afghan Writings from the Diaspora Anthology Project P.O. Box 350-148 Brooklyn NY 11235 More than twenty years after the Communist Revolution in Afghanistan and the later invasion by the Soviet Union, Afghans have become one of the largest refugee and exile groups in the world. Fighting and living at the front lines of the Cold War has had severe repercussions upon the lives, culture and state of Afghanistan and its people. A homeland devastated by war and poverty, has created a new category: an Afghan Diaspora. The young generation of Afghans abroad have, in recent years, transformed the passivity of exile into a dynamic and active Diaspora through several mutlimedia projects. While this anthology will not concentrate solely upon the writings of second generation Afghan immigrants, it gains its spirit from the success of youth expression in English. The project will focus upon collecting the lives and experiences of scattered Afghan people. Themes to contemplate are: the impact of war and refugee experience; exile and nostalgia; bi/multicultural juggling, immigration and assimilation; notions of citizenship, of family and of belonging; stories of return; pop culture/media and Afghans; The mid-80's height of the Mujahideen or Freedom Fighters; the impact of the Taleban regime; the impact of the internet on the lives of Afghans in the diaspora; the impact of religion; the experiences of the second generation born abroad, raised only on images and stories of Afghanistan; and hopes for the future. We welcome Afghan poets, essayists, memoirists, translators, fiction writers and artists to submit to this anthology. This will be the first comprehensive book project to present the experiences of Afghans in their own voice and in English. Co-Editors: Dr. S. Wali Ahmedi, Farhad Azad, Zahera Saed Please send a hard copy of your submission in duplicate for review to the address below. Please provide a self-addressed stamped envelope if you want your manuscript to be returned. Email submissions are preferred, please direct them to <afghananthology-AT-hotmail.com> DEADLINE: January 1, 2001 --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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