02585nam 2200589Ia 450 991078280880332120230207230116.00-8166-6791-8(CKB)1000000000747446(EBL)433184(OCoLC)646808292(SSID)ssj0000257267(PQKBManifestationID)11193144(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000257267(PQKBWorkID)10228021(PQKB)10463071(MiAaPQ)EBC433184(MdBmJHUP)muse39945(Au-PeEL)EBL433184(CaPaEBR)ebr10285622(CaONFJC)MIL523413(EXLCZ)99100000000074744620080828d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrTerritory of desire[electronic resource] representing the Valley of Kashmir /Ananya Jahanara KabirMinneapolis University of Minnesota Press20091 online resource (276 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8166-5357-7 0-8166-5356-9 Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-256) and index.Includes filmography (p. 256).Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Valley And The Nation; Part I: The Making of Paradise; Hinge Toward Unmaking; Part II: Poetics of Dispossession; Notes; Bibliography; IndexA 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 beaArt and social conflictIndiaKashmir, Vale ofDesire in artKashmir, Vale of (India)Symbolic representationArt and social conflictDesire in art.954/.6Kabir Ananya Jahanara1970-599783MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910782808803321Territory of desire3835030UNINA