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Territory of Desire: Representing the Valley of Kashmir
Ananya Jahanara Kabir
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Description for Territory of Desire: Representing the Valley of Kashmir
Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages, 15 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 1FKP; GTJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 449.
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 beauty into collective desire—through photography, literature, cinema, art, and ... Read more
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 beauty into collective desire—through photography, literature, cinema, art, and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816653577
SKU
V9780816653577
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About Ananya Jahanara Kabir
Ananya Jahanara Kabir is senior lecturer in English literature at the University of Leeds.
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