Writings About Kashmir

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.

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Nyla Ali Khan teaches at Oklahoma City Community College (OCCC), USA. She has also taught as Visiting Professor at the University of Oklahoma, Norman, USA. Formerly, she was Professor at the University of Nebraska-Kearney, USA. She received her PhD in English Literature and her Masters in Postcolonial Literature and Theory at the University of Oklahoma, Norman, USA. Dr Nyla Ali Khan is the author of several published articles, book reviews, and editorials. She has edited Parchment of Kashmir, a collection of essays on Jammu and Kashmir, written five books, including Educational Strategies for Youth Empowerment in Conflict Zones: Transforming, Not Transmitting, Trauma; The Fiction of Nationality in an Era of Transnationalism; and Islam, Women, and Violence in Kashmir: Between Indian and Pakistan. Several of her articles have appeared in academic journals, newspapers, and magazines in the United States and South Asia.

Inhalt

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