Everything you need to understand or teach The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories by Jamil Jan Kochai.
In Jamil Jan Kochai's The Haunting of Hajii Hotak and Other Stories, Kochai presents 12 short stories following characters and narrators attempting to reconcile with their personal, familial, or ancestral connections to Afghanistan. Written from a range of inventive points of view and embracing numerous subversive forms, the collected stories consider what it means to define oneself by or apart from one's homeland, one's parents, and one's traumas. The collection explores themes including loss and grief, entrapment and freedom, and identity and the self.
The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories Lesson Plans contain 114 pages of teaching material, including: