In this Book
Imagining Afghanistan: Global Fiction and Film of the 9/11 Wars
Book
2019
Published by:
Purdue University Press
Series:
Comparative Cultural Studies
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
summary
What do we imagine Afghanistan to be? The Ruins of Kabul examines how the meaning of “Afghanistan” has been produced, ordered, and perpetuated through 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, plays, and film, the book demonstrates that writing and screening Afghanistan has become a tool for understanding our shared post- 9/11 condition—a hermeneutics of the contemporary.
Table of Contents
ISBN | 9781612495804 |
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Related ISBN(s) | 9781557538468, 9781557539755, 9781612495811 |
MARC Record | Download |
OCLC | 1112789496 |
Pages | 259 |
Launched on MUSE | 2019-11-03 |
Language | English |
Open Access | Yes |
Creative Commons | CC-BY-NC-ND |