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03639aam a2200445 i 4500 001 E6EFA1481E3F11EAA58222FC96128E48 003 SILO 005 20191214010106 008 190808t20192019inua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2019026239 020 $a 1557538468 020 $a 9781557538468 035 $a (OCoLC)1113297081 040 $a DGU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d IPL $d BDX $d OCLCF $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a a-af--- 050 04 $a PN56.3.A38 $b I9 2019 082 00 $a 891/.59309 $2 23 100 1 $a Ivanchikova, Alla, $d 1977- $e author. 245 10 $a Imagining Afghanistan : $b global fiction and film of the 9/11 wars / $c Alla Ivanchikova. 264 1 $a West Lafayette, Indiana : $b Purdue University Press, $c [2019] 300 $a x, 277 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm. 490 1 $a Comparative cultural studies 520 $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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-267) and index. 611 27 $a Afghan War (2001-) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01695175 650 0 $a Afghan War, 2001- $x Literature and the war. 650 0 $a Afghan War, 2001- $x Motion pictures and the war. 650 7 $a Literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00999953 650 7 $a Motion pictures. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01027285 650 7 $a War and literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01170442 650 7 $a War and motion pictures. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919878 651 0 $a Afghanistan $x In literature. 651 0 $a Afghanistan $x In motion pictures. 651 7 $a Afghanistan. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01205406 776 08 $i Online version: $a Ivanchikova, Alla, 1977- $t Imagining Afghanistan $d West Lafayette, Indiana : Purdue University Press, 2019. $z 9781612495804 $w (DLC) 2019026240 830 0 $a Comparative cultural studies. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20240619011824.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=E6EFA1481E3F11EAA58222FC96128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search