The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories

Najwa Mayer is a writer and scholar who researches the cultural politics of race, gender, Islam, and US empire. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow with the Society of Fellows in the College of Arts &amp; Sciences at Boston University.&nbsp;

Najwa Mayer

War Is a Structure: On Jamil Jan Kochai’s “The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories”

"For a long time now I haven't been I."
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

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"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain

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Najwa Mayer is a writer and scholar who researches the cultural politics of race, gender, Islam, and US empire. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow with the Society of Fellows in the College of Arts &amp; Sciences at Boston University.&nbsp;