Book/Printed Material Imagining Afghanistan : global fiction and film of the 9/11 wars

Title

• Imagining Afghanistan : global fiction and film of the 9/11 wars

Summary

• "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"-- Provided by publisher.

Names

• Ivanchikova, Alla, 1977- author

Created / Published

• West Lafayette, Indiana : Purdue University Press, [2019]

Headings

• -  Afghan War, 2001-2021--Literature and the war
• -  Afghan War, 2001-2021--Motion pictures and the war
• -  Afghanistan--In literature
• -  Afghanistan--In motion pictures

Notes

• -  Includes bibliographical references and index.
• -  Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Site, viewed 02/11/2021).

Medium

• 1 online resource

Call Number/Physical Location

• PN56.3.A38

Digital Id

• https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/gdcebookspublic.2019026240

Library of Congress Control Number

• 2019026240

Rights Advisory

• Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode External

Access Advisory

• Unrestricted online access

Online Format

• image
• pdf

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/2019026240

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