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

Kashmir's Necropolis explores literary texts, film, photography, and art to understand the different forms of violence represented in the cultural productions from and on Kashmir, highlighting the shifts from biopolitical to necropolitical violence and including specific forms such as epicolonialism, horrorism, and hauntings. It also delves into the concepts of agency, resistance, and resilience in these texts, necessitating new poetics of looking at Kashmir.

Format: Hardback
Length: 172 pages
Publication date: 15 December 2023
Publisher: Lexington Books

Kashmir's Necropolis: New Literatures and Visual Texts is a multidisciplinary exploration of literary texts, film, photography, and art to comprehend the diverse manifestations of violence in cultural productions from and about Kashmir. The author contends that selected texts reveal how the protracted conflict in the postcolonial nation-state reshapes the Kashmiri body, space, setting, and the relationship between the subject and its natural environment through various forms of violence. Each chapter highlights a specific type of representational and textual violence, highlighting the transition from biopolitical to necropolitical violence, as well as 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 diverse texts necessitate new poetics of looking at Kashmir. The conflicted space of Kashmir has always been situated within the politics of representation, and this book seeks to address a taxonomy issue within postcolonial discourses to articulate unique forms of violence in such a complex space.

Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781793627964