Imagining Afghanistan : global fiction and film of the 9/11 wars /

"Imagining Afghanistan examines how Afghanistan has been imagined in 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 n...

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Main Author: Ivanchikova, Alla, 1977- (Author)
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: West Lafayette, Indiana : Purdue University Press, 2019.
Series:Comparative cultural studies.
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