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



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Autore: Kabir Ananya Jahanara <1970-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Territory of desire [[electronic resource] ] : representing the Valley of Kashmir / / Ananya Jahanara Kabir Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 2009
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (276 p.)
Disciplina: 954/.6
Soggetto topico: Art and social conflict - India - Kashmir, Vale of
Desire in art
Soggetto geografico: Kashmir, Vale of (India) Symbolic representation
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
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
Titolo autorizzato: Territory of desire  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8166-6791-8
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910454361503321
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