Abstract
Afghan-American literature occupies a distinctive place within contemporary diaspora writing, as it brings together two authors whose approaches to religious-ethical material diverge sharply in genre yet converge in underlying concern. Khaled Hosseini's novels dramatize religious-ethical dilemmas through fictional narrative, while Tamim Ansary’s works — most notably his historical study Destiny Disrupted and his memoir West of Kabul, East of New York – approach the same value system through essayistic and autobiographical modes. A comparative-typological reading of these two authors makes it possible to isolate what is genre-specific and what is shared at the level of discourse strategy when religious-ethical content crosses from an Islamic cultural frame into English-language literary expression.
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