Conflict Zone Literatures

A Genre in the Making

Debamitra Kar (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

196 Seiten

2024
Routledge India (Verlag)
978-1-032-26853-8 (ISBN)

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This book examines the metanarratives promoted by the state that determine the ideological framework and how these respond under extraneous circumstances like conflicts. The volume shows how individuals in such geo-politically aggrieved zones re-organise, re-structure and re-interpret their memory and identity and negotiate with violence in the literary space. Focusing on Kashmir and Northern Ireland in the decades of 1980s and 1990s, and post 9/11 America, the author maps the changing contours of the state and its powers in the late capitalist phase. It investigates complex themes such as the changing nature of governance and warfare, citizenship and resistance, inclusivity and xenophobia, and statecraft as a linguistic discourse in the post-global scenario.

Interdisciplinary in approach, the volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of literature and aesthetics, peace and conflict studies, politics and international relations.

Debamitra Kar teaches English in Women’s College, Calcutta. She takes interest in reading about conflict zones, trauma studies, Marxist literature and detective fictions.

Introduction 1. Genesis of a Conflict Zone 2. Metanarratives of Resistance 3. Remembering History or Historicising Memory 4. Creating the Spectacle of Violence 5. Identity, Citizenship and Xenophobia. Conclusion. Afterword: The Aesthetics of Resistance.

Erscheinungsdatum	10.07.2024
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
ISBN-10	1-032-26853-0 / 1032268530
ISBN-13	978-1-032-26853-8 / 9781032268538
Zustand	Neuware