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Of Gardens and Graves examines the textures of everyday life in Kashmir after 1990, the years of pervasive militarization of the valley. It combines personal essays with enquiries into the pre- and post-Partition histories and political actions that underlie the present conflict.
The volume also features translations of poems written in Kashmiri in these last twenty-five years of conflict. The author argues that such creative writing is a powerful archive for our ...
As nuclear bombs erupted under the ground in Pokharan in 1998, the earth and stones ironically melted and merged below the barbed wire that separates India from Pakistan. Echoes of the partition of India can be heard to this day in the daily life of the subcontinent—each time India and Pakistan play a cricket match, or when their political leaders talk of ‘unfinished business’. Sikhs who had to live through the pogrom following Indira Gandhi’s ...
In poems of Nation, Anthems of Empire Suvir Kaul argues that the aggressive nationalism of James Thomson’s ode "Rule, Britannia" (1740) is the condition to which much English poetry of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries aspires. Poets as varied as Marvell, Waller and Dryden, Defoe, Addison, John Dyer and Edward Young, or Goldsmith, Cowper, Hannah More and Anna Laetitia Barbauld, all wrote poems deeply engaged with the ...
This volume is designed to expand the agenda of postcolonial studies, assess the field’s past and present, and affect its future evolution. The editors ask scholars to consider the intellectual, political, and methodological practices that have shaped-and which should shape-postcolonial modes of thought. The effort is to reinvent and transform the field. For, having influenced perspectives and methods across disciplines, postcolonial studies is becoming ...