LEADER 03911oam 22006854a 450 001 9910340602103321 005 20230621135737.0 010 $a1-61249-581-8 010 $a1-61249-580-X 010 $a1-55753-975-8 035 $a(CKB)4100000009194829 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5896496 035 $a(OCoLC)1112789496 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse76064 035 $a(ScCtBLL)199c469e-423c-4d57-b021-b8ea7198c963 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/33449 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000009194829 100 $a20190808d2019 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aImagining Afghanistan$eGlobal Fiction and Film of the 9/11 Wars /$fAlla Ivanchikova 210 $cPurdue University Press$d2019 210 1$aWest Lafayette, Indiana :$cPurdue University Press,$d2019. 210 4$dİ2019. 215 $a1 online resource (x, 277 pages) $cillustrations 225 0 $aComparative cultural studies 311 $a1-55753-846-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $a"Imagining Afghanistan examines how Afghanistan has been imagined in literary and visual texts that were published after the 9/11 attacks and the subsequent U.S.-led invasion-the era that propelled Afghanistan into the center of global media visibility. Through an analysis of fiction, graphic novels, memoirs, drama, and film, the book demonstrates that writing and screening "Afghanistan" has become a conduit for understanding our shared post-9/11 condition. "Afghanistan" serves as a lens through which contemporary cultural producers contend with the moral ambiguities of twenty-first-century humanitarianism, interpret the legacy of the Cold War, debate the role of the U.S. in the rise of transnational terror, and grapple with the long-term impact of war on both human and nonhuman ecologies. Post-9/11 global Afghanistan literary production remains largely NATO-centric insofar as it is marked by an uncritical investment in humanitarianism as an approach to Third World suffering and in anti-communism as an unquestioned premise. The book's first half exposes how persisting anti-socialist biases-including anti-statist bias-not only shaped recent literary and visual texts on Afghanistan, resulting in a distorted portrayal of its tragic history, but also informed these texts' reception by critics. In the book's second half, the author examines cultural texts that challenge this limited horizon and forge alternative ways of representing traumatic histories. Captured by the author through the concepts of deep time, nonhuman witness, and war as a multispecies ecology, these new aesthetics bring readers a sophisticated portrait of Afghanistan as a rich multispecies habitat affected in dramatic ways by decades of war but not annihilated"--$cProvided by publisher. 410 0$aComparative cultural studies. 606 $aAfghan War, 2001-2021$xMotion pictures and the war 606 $aAfghan War, 2001-2021$xLiterature and the war 607 $aAfghanistan$xIn motion pictures 607 $aAfghanistan$xIn literature 610 $aLiterature 610 $aAfghanistan 610 $aWar 610 $aCinema 610 $aTaliban 610 $aArmy 610 $aPOL005000 610 $aPolitical 610 $aScience 610 $aGlobalization 610 $aideologies 610 $aCommunism 610 $aSocialism 615 0$aAfghan War, 2001-2021$xMotion pictures and the war. 615 0$aAfghan War, 2001-2021$xLiterature and the war. 676 $a891/.59309 700 $aIvanchikova$b Alla$f1977-$0886192 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910340602103321 996 $aImagining Afghanistan$91978831 997 $aUNINA