Narrative Conflict: Impact on Afghan Women in "Dear Zari Hidden Stories from Women in Afghanistan" By Zarghuna Kargar

Abstract Narratives are not only stories, but they also open up to varied issues of the social world. It tries to derive the meaning of the voiceless. It tries to get the reader to ascertain the narrator’s identity quest. Real narratives allow the reader to relate to the social, political, and economic issues of the past and the present. The social changes that can be looked into in terms of woman vs. war, ethnicity vs. ethics, gender justice vs. injustice, and body vs. violence are revealed in the real narratives of conflict zones. Narratives in conflict zones are the true representatives of the social disorder in all terms. During war, woman as a victim was envisioned. War and its Narration is the context for interpreting and assessing all communication—not a mode of discourse laid on by the creator’s deliberate choice but the shape of the knowledge as we first apprehend it. Zarhuna Kargar In her book Dear Zari: Hidden Stories from Women in Afghanistan, she narrates the resilience of the Afghan women. The paper dwells on Shreejan’s story. An effort to argue narrative conflict from Paul Dahrendorf—where analyzing external conflict has to be done by giving importance to the internal conflict in an individual by applying Gayathri Spivak’s “Can the Subaltern Speak?” and on subjectivity in view of Foucault’s interpretation of power and Derrida’s Force of Law, that “left to itself” can be calculated in such a way that “incalculable […] requires us to calculate.”