Imagining Kashmir

Patrick Colm Hogan is a professor of English at the University of Connecticut, where he is also on the faculty of the Program in Cognitive Science and the Program in India Studies. He is the author of numerous books, including Understanding Nationalism: On Narrative, Cognitive Science, and Identity and Affective Narratology: The Emotional Structure of Stories (Nebraska, 2011).

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Kashmir, Narrative, and the Complexity of Colonialism1. Understanding Kashmir: Salman Rushdie's Shalimar the Clown2. Dominant Ideologies and Their Limits: Four Movies about Kashmir3. Breaching the Ideological Boundaries: Three Films Not (Apparently) about Kashmir4. Kashmiri Alternatives: Rival Ideologies in Three Anglophone Novels5. Colonial Violence and Sub-Colonial Scapegoating: A Poem about Majorities and Minorities6. Fractured Tales and Colonial Traumas: Disfigured Stories in Kashmiri Short FictionAfterword: Ending the Trauma: What Can Be Done?NotesWorks CitedIndex

“This is an exciting and important book that has no equal in the field. It will be of interest to a range of scholars who work on Kashmir, postcolonialism, cognitive approaches to culture, and conflict resolution.”-Sophia McClennen, professor of comparative literature and international affairs at Pennsylvania State University“A valuable contribution to colonial/postcolonial literary studies as well as cognitive cultural studies.”-Nancy L. Easterlin, professor of women’s studies and gender studies at the University of New Orleans