Research Catalog

Title

Imagining Kashmir : emplotment and colonialism / Patrick Colm Hogan.

Author

Hogan, Patrick Colm

Publication

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2016]

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Details

Description

xi, 277 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"During the partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947, Kashmir Valley--an intricate mix of regional, ethnic, linguistic, religious, and caste communities--became a hotly disputed territory. With portions of the region divided among India, Pakistan, and the People's Republic of China, major territorial disputes, particularly between India and Pakistan, have persisted over historical and cultural claims to the land. 'Imagining Kashmir' negotiates the cinematic and literary imaginations of the Kashmir region's conflicts and diverse citizenship, analyzing a wide range of narratives from writers and directors such as Salman Rushdie, Bharat Wakhlu, Mani Rutman, and Mirza Waheed in conjunction with research in psychology, cognitive science, and social neuroscience. Hogan provides a historical and cultural analysis of Kashmir that advances the existing theoretical knowledge of narrative, colonialism, and their corresponding ideologies in relation to the the cognitive and affective operations of identity. Hogan considers how narrative organizes people's understanding of, and emotions about, real political situations, and the ways in which such situations in turn influence cultural narratives, re-forming and potentially deforming them"--Provided by publisher.

Series Statement

Frontiers of narrative

Uniform Title

Frontiers of narrative.

Subjects

• Motion pictures
• English literature > Minority authors
• Narration (Rhetoric) > Political aspects
• Kashmir, Vale of (India) > Ethnic relations > History > Sources
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Ethnic relations
• Narration (Rhetoric) > Psychological aspects
• Colonies in motion pictures
• Kashmir, Vale of (India) > In literature
• Colonies in literature
• History
• English literature > Minority authors > History and criticism
• Kashmir, Vale of (India) > In motion pictures
• Politics and literature > History
• Sources
• India > Vale of Kashmir
• Literature
• Motion pictures > Political aspects > History

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History.
• Sources.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: Kashmir, narrative, and the complexity of colonialism -- Understanding Kashmir : Salman Rushdie's Shalimar the clown -- Dominant ideologies and their limits : four movies about Kashmir -- Breaching the ideological boundaries : three films not (apparently) about Kashmir -- Kashmiri alternatives : rival ideologies in three Anglophone novels -- Colonial violence and sub-colonial scapegoating : a poem about majorities and minorities -- Fractured tales and colonial traumas : disfigured stories in Kashmiri short fiction -- Afterword: Ending the trauma : what can be done?

Call Number

JFE 16-12177

ISBN

• 9780803288591
• 080328859X

LCCN

2015043972

OCLC

940954296

Author

Hogan, Patrick Colm, author.

Title

Imagining Kashmir : emplotment and colonialism / Patrick Colm Hogan.

Publisher

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2016]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Frontiers of narrative

Frontiers of narrative.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Research Call Number

JFE 16-12177