Alla Ivanchikova. Imagining Afghanistan: Global Fiction and the Film of the 9/11 Wars

• Hong Zeng ^[1] (res.)
  1. [1] Southwest Jiaotong University

     Southwest Jiaotong University

     China

     
• Localización: Ariel: A Review of International English Literature, ISSN 0004-1327, ISSN-e 1920-1222, Vol. 53, Nº. 3, 2022 (Ejemplar dedicado a: articles on critical cosmopolitanism, worlding, and globalization; the genre turn in contemporary Black fiction; 9/11 novels; and more), págs. 175-177
• Idioma: inglés

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  • Imagining Afghanistan: Global Fiction and the Film of the 9/11 Wars

    Alla Ivanchikova

    West Lafayette : Purdue University Press, 2019

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  • Alla Ivanchikova’s Imagining Afghanistan: Global Fiction and Film of the 9/11 Wars examines how Afghanistan was imagined in literary and visual texts after 9/11 attacks and subsequent US invasion. She argues convincingly how Afghanistan after 9/11 becomes a testing ground of global forces that reflect the moral ambiguities of humanitarianism, the legacy of the Cold War, the role of America in the rise of transnational terror and the damage of wars on human and nonhuman ecology. Its iconoclastic central arguments debunk NATO-centric view of Afghanistan.