Global Fiction and Film of the 9/11 Wars
E-Book, Englisch, 290 Seiten
Reihe: Comparative Cultural Studies
ISBN: 978-1-61249-580-4
Verlag: Purdue University Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
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.
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Acknowledgments
Introduction: Global Afghanistan
1. Humanitarian Sublime and the Politics of Pity: Writing and Screening “Afghanistan” Circa 2001
2. Imagining the Soviets: The Faustian Bargain of Khaled Hosseini’s Kabul “Trilogy”
3. Humanitarian Jihad: Unearthing the Contemporary in the Narratives of the Long 1979
4. Witness: Modes of Writing the Disaster
5. The Deep Time of War: Nadeem Aslam and the Aesthetics of the Geologic Turn
6. The Kabubble: The Humanitarian Community Under Scrutiny
Conclusion: The End of an Era
Notes
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