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Laetitia Nanquette, « Zuzanna Olszewska. The Pearl of Dari: Poetry and Personhood among Young Afghans in Iran », Abstracta Iranica, ID : 10.4000/abstractairanica.46562
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This book is an ethnographic study of a circle of Afghan poets in the Iranian city of Mashhad, who developed the literary institute “Pearl of Dari” (Dorr-e Dari). It astutely shows how they use poetry as a social practice to redefine their identity, position themselves in the Iranian cultural sphere and seek emancipation from widely shared images of Afghans as victim refugees. The focus of the study is on the tensions between the way they conceive and experience personhood. The practice of po...