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The Skin of the Burqa : Recent Life Narratives from Afghanistan
- Biography
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Volume 28, Number 1, Winter 2005
- pp. 54-76
- 10.1353/bio.2005.0040
- Article
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The "war on terror" has been associated with an extraordinary proliferation of Afghan autoethnographies in the Western marketplace. In this article, various implications and connotations of this are read to explore the ethical engagements of life narrative in these times.