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


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