02582nam 2200601Ia 450 991080935960332120200520144314.00-8166-6791-8(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 representing the Valley of Kashmir /Ananya Jahanara Kabir1st ed.Minneapolis 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 Jahanara1970-599783MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910809359603321Territory of desire4039428UNINA