ATSS Context Flashcards
What date was the bloodless coup of Mohammed Zahir Shah?
1973
Zahir Shah became king at only 19 years old after the assassination of his farther. He was previously cabinet minister.
What law does Islam base it’s legal system on.
The Sharia Law
Extreme interpretations can be seen within the period of the Taliban within Afghanistan
What law has detrimental impacts to the mothers of illegitimate children and demonstrated how un-progressive Afghanistan society is?
The HANAFI LAW
What is the UNFPA’s comments on child marriages?
The United Nations Population Fund states that “child marriages are illegal but extremely widespread.
Nearly 1/10 of all Afghan adolescent females give birth every year as a consequence of early marriage- MARIAM AND LAILA
How many deaths per 100,000 live births within Afghanistan?
700 deaths
When was ATSS published?
2007
Where did Hosseini grow up and what were the major events of his childhood.
Hosseini grew up in Kabul. In 1976 he and his parents moved to Paris, where his father worked at the Afghan embassy. With the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, they found returning to their home impossible, and they moved to California, having been granted political asylum by the United States.
For how many weeks was the novel the number one New York Times Bestseller?
15 weeks
Which poet wrote the poem “Kabul” that inspired the books creation?
17th century
Saib Tabrizi
What are the main motifs within “ATSS”?
BURQA- oppression and marginalisation of women- choice of Burqa over Hijab epitomises Rasheed’s oppression
PEBBLES/ ROCKS- siblings and CHAPTER 50 “like a rock in a river bed, enduring without complaint”
GUN- CHAPTER 40 “shoved the barrel of your gun into your wives mouth”- PHALLIC IMAGERY
SHOVEL - CHAPTER 14- “she patted the dirt with the back of the shovel” vs CHAPTER 45- “Mariam brought the shovel down”
WH and ATSS introduction?
Ostensibly, both Bronte and Hosseini facilitate detailed accounts of the concept of……………………… , allowing the premise that……………….to form. This theme is represented within polarised locales: a highly oppressed Afghanistan following the coup d’état of King Zhahir
Shah in 1973 and an androcentric, Georgian society. Thus, Critic Lanier states……….. within Bronte’s work, whereas Hosseini himself elaborates that…………………………………..
What genre is employed by Hosseini, especially in relation to Laila?
Bildungsroman
What year did the Taliban take control of Afghanistan?
What percentage of women said that had been abused in a Global Rights study in 2006?
1996
Need a male mahram if enter outside= a male relative
Global Rights study in 2006, found 85% of Afghan women reporting that they had experienced physical, sexual or psychological violence or forced marriage.
Which Middle Eastern feminist theorised that sons meant “immortality”?
Azizah Al-Hibri
In the first three months of the Taliban’s reign, how many regions of Afghanistan did they takeover?
12/36 regions of Afghanistan
Worked to move away from egalitarianism and eradicate education rather ironically, with the word “Taliban” meaning “students” in Arabic.
