Amrita Ghosh

Kashmir's Necropolis

Literary, Cultural, and Visual Texts

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Produktbeschreibung

Kashmir's Necropolis: New Literatures and Visual Texts explores the literary, visual, and cultural productions from and on Kashmir. The author argues that the selected texts articulate an aberrant space caught in a violence in which postcolonial concepts of agency, violence, resistance and horror undergo unique transformations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 174
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 414g
• ISBN-13: 9781793627964
• ISBN-10: 1793627967
• Artikelnr.: 68885894

Autorenporträt

Amrita Ghosh is assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of Central Florida.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Kashmir and the Optics of Violence
Chapter 1: From Biopolitics to Necropolitics: Reading Violence in The
Collaborator and Curfewed Night
Chapter 2: Narratives Of 'Horrorism': Postcolonial Violence and Horror in
The Night of Broken Glass
Chapter 3: Haider: Rewriting Shakespearean Ghosts into Postcolonial
Specters in Kashmir
Chapter 4: "This is a Troubled Place"-The Kashmir Shawl and the Violence of
'Epicolonialism'
Chapter 5: Alegropolitics, Syndesis and Postcolonial Bildungsroman: The
Garden of Solitude & Tiger Ladies
Chapter 6: 'Representing-Agency,' Infra-Politics and Visual Cultures:
Kashmiri Women in Images, 1947 to Present
Conclusion: Kashmir and the Uncanny
Bibliography
About the Author