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Borderland Conflict
Borderland Studies
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Cultural Studies
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History
Kashmir
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Literature
Necropolitics
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Postcolonial Conflict Zone
Postcolonial Studies
Postcolonial Violence
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Visual Arts
Visual Texts
Product details
- ISBN 9781793627964
- Weight: 426g
- Dimensions: 159 x 239mm
- Publication Date: 11 Dec 2023
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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Kashmir's Necropolis: New Literatures and Visual Texts is an interdisciplinary book that studies literary texts, film, photography, and art to understand the different forms of violence represented in the cultural productions from and on Kashmir. The author argues that selected texts present how the long conflict in the postcolonial nation-state transforms the Kashmiri body, the space, setting, the relationship between the subject and its natural world under different forms of violence. Each chapter showcases a form of representational and textual violence that emphasizes the shifts from biopolitical to necropolitical violence and also includes specific forms of violence such as epicolonialism, horrorism, and hauntings in Kashmir’s landscape. The book also delves into how the concepts of agency, resistance, and resilience in these different texts necessitate new poetics of looking at Kashmir. The conflicted space of Kashmir has always been located within the politics of representation and this book investigates a problem in taxonomy within postcolonial discourses to articulate unique forms of violence in such a conflicted space.
Amrita Ghosh is assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of Central Florida.
