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Territory of desire : representing the Valley of Kashmir /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 bea. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 261 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-256) and index. Includes filmography (page 256). |
| ISBN: | 9780816667918 0816667918 0816653569 9780816653560 0816653577 9780816653577 |