Weber, Cynthia (2005) Not without my sister(s) : imagining a moral America in "Kandahar". International Feminist Journal of Politics, 7 (3). pp. 358-376.
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Less than two months after 11 September 2001, and a few weeks after the beginning of the US bombing campaign in Afghanistan, President George W. Bush made an urgent plea to see Iranian filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf's Kandahar. Not only did the President want to see Kandahar; he encouraged US citizens to view it as well. This article offers two readings of Kandahar - the first suggestive of what its filmmaker Makhmalbaf saw in Afghanistan and the second suggestive of what Bush saw (or hoped to see) in Makhmalbaf's Afghanistan. In particular, this article focuses on how the Bush administration - against the intentions of Kandahar's director and star - propelled occidental subjects to 'lift the veil' on Afghanistan and on Afghan women by viewing Kandahar as if it positioned the feminine as a needy and willing object of US rescue. It was in part by laying this particular claim to the separated sisters of Kandahar that the Bush administration constructed a humanitarian US 'we' as among the foundations of its 'moral grammar of war' in the war on terror.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Journal or Publication Title: | International Feminist Journal of Politics |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Afghanistan ; feminism ; Kandahar ; morality ; war on terror |
| Subjects: | J Political Science > JA Political science (General) |
| Departments: | Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences > Politics & International Relations (Merged into PPR 2010-08-01) |
| ID Code: | 19782 |
| Deposited By: | Mrs Janet Harris |
| Deposited On: | 11 Nov 2008 16:22 |
| Refereed?: | Yes |
| Published?: | Published |
| Last Modified: | 26 Jul 2012 15:34 |
| Identification Number: | |
| URI: | http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/19782 |
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