fiction/non/fiction23 Sep 2021

S4 Ep. 26: Bullshit Saviors: Helen Benedict and Nadia Hashimi on Depictions of the American Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq

Novelists Nadia Hashimi and Helen Benedict join hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell to discuss the mistakes American writers and culture made in depicting the United States’ wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. In the wake of the 20th anniversary of 9/11 and President Biden’s decision to pull U.S. troops out of Afghanistan, have American fiction and film truly confronted the cost of these wars, especially to civilians overseas? In this episode, Benedict discusses the persistent and problematic glamorization of conflict, and reads from her 2017 novel, Wolf Season, which is about the Iraq War and its aftermath. Then, Hashimi speaks about centering Afghan voices in her fiction and reads from her novel Sparks Like Stars, which begins in 1978 Kabul during the Saur Revolution.

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This podcast is produced by Anne Kniggendorf.

Selected readings:

Nadia Hashimi

Helen Benedict

Others:

The Storytellers of Empire, By Kamila Shamsie – Guernica
Unbecoming by Anuradha Bhagwati
“A Former Marine Looks Back on Her Life in a Male-Dominated Military” by V.V. Ganeshananthan (New York Times)
Elliot Ackerman and Anuradha Bhagwati on the Role of the Military in American Politics, Fiction/Non/Fiction, season two, episode 21
Charlie Wilson’s War
Afghan Women are In Charge of Their Own Fate by Cheryl Benard
“The Other Afghan Women” by Anand Gopal (New Yorker)
“What Should a War Movie Do?” by Whitney Terrell (The New Republic)
The Hurt Locker directed by Kathryn Bigelow
Generation Kill by Evan Wright
Karate Kid
Matt Gallagher
Teen Wolf
Casualties of War directed by Brian De Palma
The Messenger
Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi
Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves and Miranda Seymour
Corpse Exhibition by Hassan Blasim
The Taliban indoctrinates kids with jihadist textbooks paid for by the U.S. Washington Post, 2014
Sylvester Stallone in First Blood (1982)
Katey Schultz
Jesse Goolsby
Cara Hoffman

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