LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 17:4 April 2017
ISSN 1930-2940

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From the Silenced to the
An Afghan Woman’s Journey from a Fractured Self to Emancipated Womanhood in
Atiq Rahimi’s The Patience Stone

Nisha Thomji Varghese and Dr. R. Saravana Selvan

The Patience Stone

Atiq Rahimi explores the plight of Afghan women in his compelling novel The Patience Stone. Mixing myths and history he tries to weave a brutal piece of reportage. The novel was written in French, and was translated into English by Polly McLean. Critics have praised not only the storytelling skills of the author but also his language use. The translator Polly McLean is also greatly appreciated. For example, a review in the newspaper Independent reports:

Atiq Rahimi's prose is spare and elegant and sporadically mutates into shards of evocative poetry. Polly McLean's lean translation does justice to the original French. While the events the nameless woman speaks of are hyperbolic, the narration is not. (http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/the-patience-stone-by-atiq-rahimi-trans-polly-mclean-1910810.html)

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Nisha Thomji Varghese M.A (English), B.Ed.
Assistant Professor
Department of English
St Albert’s College
Ernakulam 682018
Kerala
nishathomji@gmail.com


Dr. R. Saravana Selvan M.A. (English), M.A. (Political Science), M.Phil.
M.Ed., P.G.D.J., P.G.D.T.E., Ph.D. (English).
Professor & Head
Department of English
Bharathiar University
Coimbatore 641046
Tamilnadu
India
raja_saravanan@rediffmail.com
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