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August 17, 2025

Resisting Quietly: Strategic Agency in Contemporary Pashtun Women’s Fiction

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Textual analysis highlights female agency and resilience in Pashto narratives, indicating cultural representation amid patriarchy.

Pashtun women's fiction embodies themes of resilience and female agency in the context of war, tackling narratives of motherhood and loss.
Findings reveal that female authors challenge gendered representation while asserting cultural identities, promoting agency.
Analysis of two short stories illustrates how Pashto narratives reflect lived experiences and collective identities of women.
These texts serve as acts of soft resilience, encapsulating cultural memory and the complexities of womanhood in patriarchal settings.

Nafees et al. (2025) studied this question.

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