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.
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.
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
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
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