William Vollmann’s Burqa

• Main Author: Reynolds, Guy J
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln 2010
• Subjects: Afghanistan; reportage; An Afghanistan Picture Show; Poor People; English Language and Literature; Arctic; Bowles
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/englishtalks/6; https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/context/englishtalks/article/1005/viewcontent/Reynolds_NARRATIVE_CONF_2010_Vollman_s_burqa.pdf

William Vollmann’s career exemplifies the importance of the historical moment in the life of a writer. It is hard to imagine his writing temporally outside the very specific circumstances of the last thirty years, a context that has shaped his work’s hectic, cosmopolitan energy. Born in 1959, Vollma...