Territory of desire : representing the Valley of Kashmir

Territory of desire : representing the Valley of Kashmir / Ananya Jahanara Kabir.

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...

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Main Author: Kabir, Ananya Jahanara, 1970-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2009.
Subjects:
Art and social conflict > India > Kashmir, Vale of.
Desire in art.
HISTORY.
HISTORY > Asia > India & South Asia.
Art and social conflict
Desire in art
Kashmir, Vale of (India) > Symbolic representation.
India > Vale of Kashmir
Online Access:Click for online access
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xii, 261 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-256) and index.
Includes filmography (page 256).
ISBN:9780816667918
0816667918
0816653569
9780816653560
0816653577
9780816653577
Language:English.
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.

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