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The Fiction of Nationality in an Era of Transnationalism

By: Nyla Ali Khan

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The Fiction of Nationality in an Era of Transnationalism

By: Nyla Ali Khan

The book focuses on the representation of South Asian life in works by four Anglophone writers: V. S. Naipaul, Salman Rushdie, Amitav Ghosh, and Anita Desai. Concentrating on the intertwined topics of nationalism, transnationalism, and fundamentalism, the book addresses the dislocation associated with these phenomena, offering a critical dialogue between these works and contemporary history, using history to interrogate fiction and fiction to think through historical issues. Despite all their differences, the works of these authors delineate the asymmetrical relations of colonialism and the aftermath of this phenomenon as it is manifested across the globe. The binary structures created by the colonial encounter undergo a process of dialectical interplay in which each culture makes incursions into the other. This dialogic interplay becomes the basis for strategies that enable transnational and postcolonial writers to reimagine themselves and their world. The book shows, for instance, how Naipaul articulates a sensibility created by multilayered identities and the remapping of old imperial landscapes, in the process suggesting a new dynamic of power relations in which politics and selfhood, empire and psychology, prove to be profoundly interrelated; how Rushdie encourages a nationalist self-imagining and a rewriting of history that incorporate profound cultural, religious, and linguistic differences into our sense of identity; how Ghosh is critical of the putative cultural and religious necessity to forge a unified nationalist identity, arguing that no single theory sufficiently frames the multiple inheritances of present diasporic subjectivities; and how Desai seeks to imagine a responsible form of artistic, social, and political agency. Although transnationalism, then, can have positive effects, which have been celebrated in terms such as hybridity, the book suggests why this sort of term, too, cannot be a stopping-place for our thinking about a world radically transformed by postcolonial struggles.

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160

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Routledge

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1135923035

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9781135923037

Islam, Women, and Violence in Kashmir

Between India and Pakistan

By: Nyla Ali Khan

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Islam, Women, and Violence in Kashmir

Between India and Pakistan

By: Nyla Ali Khan

Nyla Ali Khan, the granddaughter of the first Prime Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah, gives an insider's analysis on the political and social turmoil that has eroded the ethos and fabric of Kasmiri culture. She monitors the effects of nationalist, militant, and religious discourses and praxes on a gender-based hierarchy.

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360

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Springer

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0230113524

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9780230113527

Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah’s Reflections on Kashmir

By: Nyla Ali Khan

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Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah’s Reflections on Kashmir

By: Nyla Ali Khan

This book is a compendium of the speeches and interviews of Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah, who reigned as Prime Minister of the State of Jammu and Kashmir from 1948 to 1953, and who was a large presence on the political landscape of India for fifty years. The volume is designed to enable a student of South Asian politics, and the politics of Kashmir in particular, to analyze the ways in which experiences have been constructed historically and have changed overtime.

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243

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Springer

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3319501038

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9783319501031

Educational Strategies for Youth Empowerment in Conflict Zones

Transforming, not Transmitting, Trauma

By: Nyla Ali Khan

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Educational Strategies for Youth Empowerment in Conflict Zones

Transforming, not Transmitting, Trauma

By: Nyla Ali Khan

This book offers fresh and exciting new directions of inquiry into the highly contentious issue of conflict resolution in South Asia. By shifting its gaze from a politics of division mired in ethno-nationalisms into a healing and restorative focus, the author moves the dialogue forward into the realm of community, healing, and shared governance. The book analyzes the major constitutional and political missteps that have led to the current situation of violence and distrust in countries such as India and Pakistan, keeping the focus on Jammu and Kashmir. This monograph will appeal to a wide range of audiences including academics, researchers, graduate students interested in South Asian politics, development, trauma studies, and peace and conflict studies.

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231

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Springer Nature

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3030662268

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9783030662264

Cybersurfer

The Owl Internet Guide for Kids

By: Nyla Ahmad,Keltie Thomas

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The Owl Internet Guide for Kids

By: Nyla Ahmad,Keltie Thomas

An Internet guide for kids.

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Maple Tree

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1895688507

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9781895688504

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The Owl Internet Guide for Kids

By: Nyla Ahmad,Keltie Thomas

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The Owl Internet Guide for Kids

By: Nyla Ahmad,Keltie Thomas

An Internet guide for kids.

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The Parchment of Kashmir

History, Society, and Polity

By: N. Khan

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The Parchment of Kashmir

History, Society, and Polity

By: N. Khan

A cross-disciplinary anthology on contemporary Kashmir by academics from Jammu and Kashmir, the first such volume to appear. The book offers a panorama of key cultural concerns of Jammu and Kashmir today, incorporating analysis of military, cultural, religious, and social aspects of the society and polity.

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Palgrave Macmillan

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1137498293

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9781137498298

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The Fiction of Nationality in an Era of Transnationalism

The Fiction of Nationality in an Era of Transnationalism

Islam, Women, and Violence in Kashmir

Islam, Women, and Violence in Kashmir

Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah’s Reflections on Kashmir

Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah’s Reflections on Kashmir

Educational Strategies for Youth Empowerment in Conflict Zones

Educational Strategies for Youth Empowerment in Conflict Zones

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The Parchment of Kashmir

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