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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782808803321

Autore

Kabir Ananya Jahanara <1970->

Titolo

Territory of desire [[electronic resource] ] : representing the Valley of Kashmir / / Ananya Jahanara Kabir

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 2009

ISBN

0-8166-6791-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (276 p.)

Disciplina

954/.6

Soggetti

Art and social conflict - India - Kashmir, Vale of

Desire in art

Kashmir, Vale of (India) Symbolic representation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

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

Includes filmography (p. 256).

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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