Writings about Kashmir: Illuminating the Labyrinthine Region

ISBN-13: 9781032418650 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 130 str.

Ali Khan, Nyla

Opis

Any attempt to homogenize Kashmiri society or the politico-cultural discourse on Kashmir is a dangerously flawed exercise. To that end, this book address various aspects of the political, cultural, and socioeconomic life in Kashmir. It was originally published as a special issue of the South Asian Review.

 

Spis treści

1. Introduction  Section 1: History, Memory, and Fiction: A Critical Dialogue  2. Mapping the Claims of History and Memory in Theorizing of the Kashmir Question  3. Excrement and Waste: Examining the Ramifications of the Municipal Infrastructures and the Problem of Global Eco-Cosmopolitism in Malik Sajad’s Munnu: A Boy from Kashmir  Section 2: History, Gender, and Politics: A Critical Dialogue  4. “Dancing Naked”: Gender, Trauma and Politics in the Mystical Poetry of Lal Ded  5. Women, Morality and Law: Prostitution in Kashmir  6. Women Negotiating Public Sphere in Conflict-Ridden Kashmir: A Case of Sacred-Sites  7. Freda Bedi Looking “From a Woman’s Window” on Kashmir  Section 3: History, Trauma, and Poetry: A Complex Relationship  8. Poets of Circumstances: Love, Trauma and Death in Digital Poetry