TY - BOOK AU - Ivanchikova,Alla TI - Imagining Afghanistan: Global Fiction and Film of the 9/11 Wars SN - 9781557539755 PB - Purdue University Press KW - Political Science / Globalization KW - bisacsh KW - Political science KW - Electronic books N1 - Access copy available to the general public N2 - 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 UR - https://openresearchlibrary.org/content/199c469e-423c-4d57-b021-b8ea7198c963 ER -