Alla Ivanchikova is an assistant professor of English and comparative literature at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, NY. She holds a Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo, as well as degrees from Moscow State University and Central European University. Her research and teaching focus on the post-9/11 global novel, post-socialist studies, ecocriticism and new media theory. Her recent articles on the global novel and film appeared in Textual Practice, Camera Obscura and Modern Fiction Studies (forthcoming).

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• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Global Afghanistan1. Humanitarian Sublime and the Politics of Pity: Writing and Screening "Afghanistan" Circa 20012. Imagining the Soviets: The Faustian Bargain of Khaled Hosseini's Kabul "Trilogy"3. Humanitarian Jihad: Unearthing the Contemporary in the Narratives of the Long 19794. Witness: Modes of Writing the Disaster5. The Deep Time of War: Nadeem Aslam and the Aesthetics of the Geologic Turn6. The Kabubble: The Humanitarian Community Under ScrutinyConclusion: The End of an EraNotesWorks CitedIndex

Alla Ivanchikova is an assistant professor of English and comparative literature at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, NY. She holds a Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo, as well as degrees from Moscow State University and Central European University. Her research and teaching focus on the post-9/11 global novel, post-socialist studies, ecocriticism and new media theory. Her recent articles on the global novel and film appeared in Textual Practice, Camera Obscura and Modern Fiction Studies (forthcoming).

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• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Global Afghanistan1. Humanitarian Sublime and the Politics of Pity: Writing and Screening "Afghanistan" Circa 20012. Imagining the Soviets: The Faustian Bargain of Khaled Hosseini's Kabul "Trilogy"3. Humanitarian Jihad: Unearthing the Contemporary in the Narratives of the Long 19794. Witness: Modes of Writing the Disaster5. The Deep Time of War: Nadeem Aslam and the Aesthetics of the Geologic Turn6. The Kabubble: The Humanitarian Community Under ScrutinyConclusion: The End of an EraNotesWorks CitedIndex

Alla Ivanchikova is an assistant professor of English and comparative literature at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, NY. She holds a Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo, as well as degrees from Moscow State University and Central European University. Her research and teaching focus on the post-9/11 global novel, post-socialist studies, ecocriticism and new media theory. Her recent articles on the global novel and film appeared in Textual Practice, Camera Obscura and Modern Fiction Studies (forthcoming).

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• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Global Afghanistan1. Humanitarian Sublime and the Politics of Pity: Writing and Screening "Afghanistan" Circa 20012. Imagining the Soviets: The Faustian Bargain of Khaled Hosseini's Kabul "Trilogy"3. Humanitarian Jihad: Unearthing the Contemporary in the Narratives of the Long 19794. Witness: Modes of Writing the Disaster5. The Deep Time of War: Nadeem Aslam and the Aesthetics of the Geologic Turn6. The Kabubble: The Humanitarian Community Under ScrutinyConclusion: The End of an EraNotesWorks CitedIndex