[Linganth] Shelter for the Night

[Ilana Gershon]

Dear Colleagues,
Today on the blog, Fatima Mojaddedi answers Megha Bahl's questions about
her book, *Shelter for the Night: On Afghanistan, Language, and Detours*.

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Best,
Ilana

Press blurb: *Shelter for the Night* 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, Fatima
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, *Shelter for the Night* 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.
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