Kashmir’s Necropolis: Literary, Cultural, and Visual Texts

Amrita Ghosh

doi:10.5771/9781793627971

Summary

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.

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Edition: 1/2023
Copyright Year: 2023
ISBN-Print: 978-1-7936-2796-4
ISBN-Online: 978-1-7936-2797-1
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 162
Product Type: Monograph

1. Dedication No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
1. Kashmir, a “Necroscopic Regime”4: A Crisis in Representation No access
2. Literary and Cultural Productions from “Kashmir” No access
3. “Kashmir’s Necropolis”: Neocolony within a Postcolony No access
4. Forms of Violence: Necropolitics and Beyond No access
5. The “Implicated Subject” and Acts of Reading No access
6. Notes No access
1. 1. The Collaborator No access
  2. Curfewed Night No access
2. Notes No access
1. Notes No access
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1. Colonial Kashmir and Subalterns No access
2. Encountering Kashmir: Children and the Kashmiri Body No access
3. The Symbolic Presence of the “Kashmiri” Shawl No access
4. The European Gaze on Kashmir’s Conflict No access
5. Notes No access
1. The Tiger Ladies No access
2. The Garden of Solitude No access
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1. 1. Masrat Zahra’s Photography: “Everyday Resistance” in Visual Domain No access
  2. Kashmir’s Contemporary Women’s Art No access
  3. Rollie Mukherjee’s Kashmir Paintings No access
  4. Soniya Amrit Patel, “Paintings on Kashmir” No access
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1. NoteS No access
Bibliography No access Pages 147 - 154
Index No access Pages 155 - 160
About the Author No access Pages 161 - 162