ABSTRACT This article explores British Pakistani writer Mohammed Hanif’s novel Red Birds (2018) as a innovative, satiric account of US neo-imperialist war strategies (the so-called “Revolution in Military Affairs”), the duplicity involved in the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and the pursuit of a capitalist economic order in an unnamed Muslim territory. In Hanif’s novel, US academic research initiatives aimed at understanding “the Muslim mind” and providing therapy for traumatized war victims tend to reinforce a cosmopolitan humanitarian world view that valorizes reason and experimentation while seeking to define the other. However, Red Birds also satirizes Third World Muslim societies trapped in dogmatism, lack of development, and forms of cultural deterioration. Hanif’s dark humour proves to be an appropriate means of exposing wrongdoing, as well as dramatizing cultural misconceptions on both sides of the novel’s apparent binary: that is, the advanced neo-imperial US and an economically precarious Third World Muslim country.

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Mohammed Hanif 的《红鸟》：“反殖民文本”及其他

摘要 本文探讨了英国巴基斯坦作家穆罕默德·哈尼夫 (Mohammed Hanif) 的小说《红鸟》(2018) 作为对美国新帝国主义战争战略（所谓的“军事革命”）的创新、讽刺性描述，涉及美国代理机构的两面性。国际开发署 (USAID)，以及在未命名的穆斯林领土上追求资本主义经济秩序。在哈尼夫的小说中，旨在理解“穆斯林思想”并为受创伤的战争受害者提供治疗的美国学术研究计划往往会强化一种世界主义的人道主义世界观，这种世界观在寻求定义他人的同时，重视理性和实验。然而，《红鸟》也讽刺了陷入教条主义、缺乏发展和文化退化形式的第三世界穆斯林社会。