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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.

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  1. Half Title Page, Series page, Copyright, Dedication
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  1. Acknowledgments
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  1. Title Page
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  1. Introduction: Global Afghanistan
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  1. Copyright Page
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  1. 1. Humanitarian Sublime and the Politics of Pity: Writing and Screening “Afghanistan” Circa 2001
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  1. Dedication
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  1. 2. Imagining the Soviets: The Faustian Bargain of Khaled Hosseini’s Kabul “Trilogy”
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. vii-viii
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  1. 3. Humanitarian Jihad: Unearthing the Contemporary in the Narratives of the Long 1979
  2. pp. 99-136
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  1. Acknowledgments
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  1. 4. Witness: Modes of Writing the Disaster
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  1. Introduction: Global Afghanistan
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  1. 5. The Deep Time of War: Nadeem Aslam and the Aesthetics of the Geologic Turn
  2. pp. 175-196
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  1. 1. Humanitarian Sublime and the Politics of Pity: Writing and Screening “Afghanistan” Circa 2001
  2. pp. 21-58
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  1. 6. The Kabubble: The Humanitarian Community Under Scrutiny
  2. pp. 197-230
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  1. 2. Imagining the Soviets: The Faustian Bargain of Khaled Hosseini’s Kabul “Trilogy”
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  1. Conclusion: The End of an Era
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  1. 3. Humanitarian Jihad: Unearthing the Contemporary in the Narratives of the Long 1979
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  1. Notes
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  1. 4. Witness: Modes of Writing the Disaster
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  1. Works Cited
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  1. 5. The Deep Time of War: Nadeem Aslam and the Aesthetics of the Geologic Turn
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  1. Index
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  1. 6. The Kabubble: The Humanitarian Community Under Scrutiny
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  1. About the Author
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  1. Conclusion: The End of an Era
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  1. Notes
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  1. Works Cited
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  1. Index
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  1. About the Author
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