Territory of desire : representing the Valley of Kashmir / Ananya Jahanara Kabir.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kabir, Ananya Jahanara, 1970-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art and social conflict--India--Kashmir, Vale of.

Art and social conflict.

Desire in art.

Kashmir, Vale of (India)--Symbolic representation.

Kashmir, Vale of (India).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (276 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A result of territorial disputes between India and Pakistan since 1947, exacerbated by armed freedom movements since 1989, the ongoing conflict over Kashmir is consistently in the news. Taking a unique multidisciplinary approach, Territory of Desire asks how, and why, Kashmir came to be so intensely desired within Indian, Pakistani, and Kashmiri nationalistic imaginations. Literary historian Ananya Jahanara Kabir finds an answer to this question in the Valley of Kashmir's repeated portrayal as a "special" place and the missing piece of Pakistan and India.Analyzing the conversion of natural bea

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Valley And The Nation; Part I: The Making of Paradise; Hinge Toward Unmaking; Part II: Poetics of Dispossession; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-256) and index.

Includes filmography (p. 256).

ISBN:

0-8166-6791-8

OCLC:

646808292