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Kabir Ananya Jahanara <1970-> |
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Titolo |
Territory of desire [[electronic resource] ] : representing the Valley of Kashmir / / Ananya Jahanara Kabir |
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Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 2009 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (276 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Art and social conflict - India - Kashmir, Vale of |
Desire in art |
Electronic books. |
Kashmir, Vale of (India) Symbolic representation |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-256) and index. |
Includes filmography (p. 256). |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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