Kashmirs Necropolis - Literary, Cultural, and Visual Texts

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

By Amrita Ghosh

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Amrita Ghosh, Ghosh Amrita
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2023
• EAN: 9781793627964
• ISBN: 978-1-79362-796-4
• No. of pages: 174
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 21st Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Indic, India, Politics & government, Politics and government, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: from c 2000, Jammu and Kashmir