Writings about Kashmir : illuminating the labyrinthine region / edited by Nyla Ali Khan.

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Manners and customs.

Politics and government.

Jammu and Kashmir (India)--History.

Jammu and Kashmir (India).

Jammu and Kashmir (India)--Social life and customs.

Jammu and Kashmir (India)--Politics and government.

India--Jammu and Kashmir.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

x, 141 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.

Summary:

Any attempt to homogenize Kashmiri society or the politico-cultural discourse on Kashmir is a dangerously flawed exercise. To that end, the chapters in this book address various aspects of the political, cultural, and socioeconomic life in Kashmir. These chapters are interdisciplinary interventions that could potentially bridge ethnic, religiocultural, and political divides in the region. The book is divided into three sections: the first section explores history and memory, offering a critical dialogue between these phenomena and fiction. The chapters in section two offer a critical dialogue between history, politics, and gender, analyzing historical and political discourses to underscore the agential capacities of Kashmiri women, which are, traditionally, subsumed within masculinist discourse. The sole chapter in section three foregrounds the complex relationship between history, trauma, and poetry.Taken together, this book is a nuanced attempt at giving readers the opportunity to engage with multiple subjectivities, historical understandings, and political opinions. It will be of interest to general readers, scholars, and advanced students of Literature, Politics, History, Human Geography and Sociology.This book was originally published as a special issue of the South Asian Review.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction / Nyla Ali Khan

SECTION I History, Memory, and Fiction: A Critical Dialogue

2. Mapping the Claims of History and Memory in Theorizing of the Kashmir Question / Sana Shah

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 / Zachary Vincent Bordas

SECTION II History, Gender, and Politics: A Critical Dialogue

4. "Dancing Naked": Gender, Trauma and Politics in the Mystical Poetry of Lai Ded / Abir Bazaz

5. Women, Morality and Law: Prostitution in Kashmir / Sana Kochak

6. Women Negotiating Public Sphere in Conflict-Ridden Kashmir: A Case of Sacred-Sites / Zohra Batul

7. Freda Bedi Looking "From a Woman's Window" on Kashmir / Andrew Whitehead

SECTION III History, Trauma, and Poetry: A Complex Relationship

8. Poets of Circumstances: Love, Trauma and Death in Digital Poetry / Veena Mani.

Notes:

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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781032418650

1032418656

OCLC:

1338299567

Publisher Number:

99993272871